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Introducing ourselves, we come to 
greet those who can spare a leisure mo- 
ment, and will honor this sheet with a 
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you see what we are, and to discharge 
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Our Doctors. 

The two best abused classes of men in 
this querulous world are the Lawyers 
and Doctors. There are people who 
really believe that the world would be 
better off if there were no lawyers in it. 
We don't propose to take up the gauntlet 
thus thrown down to the legal profession, 
for we freely grant it the ability to plead 
its own case, and must confess to having 
sometimes experienced certain misgiv- 
ings ourselves. But we wish to say a 
few plain words about our doctors. 

It has become fashionaljle to speak in 
sneering terms of the medical profession 
as a class, and to such an extent does this 
spirit pervade the community, that in 
society, a layman who undertakes to de- 
fend physicians and uphold their reputa- 
tion for science and skill, is overwhelmed 
with ridicule, and probably derided as 
a valetudinarian. Prominent among 
those who thus hold the medical profes- 
sion in contempt are the editors of 
" popular" journals and books, purj^ort- 
ing to teach men the laws of life, " how 
not to be sick." etc.. and tUeir univer- 



sal panacea is generally to be found 
in — " take my paper " — " buy my book." 
There are Hygienic books and journals 
worthy of the name, which teach truth 
instead of merely advertising private 
schemes and quack medical practice, but 
their authors are almost without excep- 
tion, educated Physicians. 

Among laymen, the loudest revilers of 
the doctor, are those who inheriting 
sound, vigorous bodies, and strong nerves 
are never sick, and therefore lielieve, or 
pretend to, that all illness is but a conse- 
quence of taking medicine and the doc- 
tor's visits. If you should apply to one 
of this disaffected class (not a watch- 
maker) with your watch which needs 
repair, and request him to put it in or- 
der, how would he stare at you ! •• Take 
it to a watchmaker," he would say ; 
" but " you reply, " use your own common 
sense and good judgment and tell me 
what is the matter with it?'" "Com- 
mon sense and good judgment be 
hanged," he would answer; '"how will 
that help me when I know nothing of 
the mechanism of a watch ; I never 
studied machinery, and should ruin it if 
I ignorantly meddled with it. Take it 
to a watch-doctor!" Now the mechan- 
ism' of a watch is simplicity itself com- 
pared with the wonderful organization 
of the hixman body. Men in general (to 
their shame be it said !) know less of 
their own bodies than of the works of a 
watch. They look upon anatomy, physi- 
ology and hygiene as mystic sciences, 
either beyond their comprehension or 
unworthy of study. While in health, 
they are constantly disobeying laws of 
which they are ignorant, and when sick- 
ness does come, they are entirely at the 
mercy of disease and the dorlnr. If the 
doctor fails at once or finally to repair 
the mischief done to this exquisite hu- 
man body by its ignorant occupant, or 
finds inherent defects in the workman- 
ship, caused by the transgressions of the 
sick man's ancestors, how is he then up- 
braided for ignorance or want of skill ! 
Men shoitld consider that the science of 
the human body and its diseases is a life- 
long study ; that the practice of medicine 
is ever progressive and improving. While 
every mati should strive to learn bv study 



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and observation all that he can of these 
matters 'concerning life and health, he 
should also defer to the superior knowl- 
edge and experience of the physician, 
who has concentrated all his time, 
thought and powers on these momentous 
things of life and death, and who has 
also added to his own the experience of 
those in the profession who have preceded 
him. 

It is complained that physicians 
often fail to successfully treat disease. 
Was it ordained by the Creator tliat man 
should live forever, or that his years 
should generally exceed three score and 
ten ? And why should the members of 
this profession be singled out for censure, 
because they have not yet laid bare all 
the secjets of nature in her relations to 
life and health ? Are the religious doc- 
trines of theologians finally settled, and 
do all agree upon absolute truth at last? 
In natural philosophy, within a few years, 
old doctrines have been overturned and 
new ones enunciated. Chemistry is con- j 
stantly developing new truths, and lay- 
ing tlie ghosts of former errors. And as 
to the science and profession of the hu% 
language fails to do justice to its astound- 
ing progress. Old precedents are thrown 
aside, and new inteqiretations follow each 



that this action on the part of Mr. Lin- 
coln does not foreshadow his resignation 
or retirement from his position in the 
Health Board. Since his accession as 
President of the Health Commission, he 
has directed its affairs with an honesty, 
zeal and courtesy which has won the 
respect even of the Board's enemies. 
"We should sincerely regret seeing his 
place filled by a man of less "back- 
bone " or by a partisan. 



" Poppies," says Toodles gravely, munch- 
ing away, "Poppies will, I am informed, 

if eaten frequently, in large doses, 

— and persevered in for a great length 

of time, occasion instant death." 

We are quite curious to ascertain the 
theological views of Dr. Letheby, as to 
the Creator who prepares a grain so 
deadly in its eifects, and then gives it to 
a large portion of his creatures as their 
sole food. 



The Vanderbilt Mystery. 

What is the meaning of the Vanderbilt 
Bronze Statue ? Is it merely a private 
testimonial from personal friends ? Then 
it is out of place on the great warehouse 
of a public corporation, and intrudes of- 
fensively upon the public attention. Is 
it then but an architectural ornament 
of that public building, and paid for by 
the stockholders of the Hudson River 
Railroad ? Surely Vanderbilt would have 
had the grac« to ask permission for such 
display and expense from those whose 
money contributed to the show. Per- 
haps, after all, it is but a freak of the 
sportive Commodore's fancy, and the 
bills were footed by himself It is cer- 
tainly not an expression of public regard 
or opinion in any sense, for the people 
have had nothing to do with it. and are 
still asking — 

''What doe* UmeariT" 



other in dazzling succession, and such is 
the beautiful flexibility of this charming 
science, that every man may find his 
peculiar views of equity and justice con- 
firmed by the Bench as well as the Bar, I 

providedhispersonal influence and purse : Wonderful Properties of Indian 
are commensurate with his vii'ws of jus- 1 Corn. 

tice. Dr. Letheby has been lecturing l)eibre 

One other consideration greatly to j the Society of Arts in London. Describ- 
the credit of the medical profession is | ing the various kinds of grain, he said: 
too often overlooked. The physician is ' "Maize, or Indian Corn, is one of the most 
the recipient of more of our sacred con- - extensively used grains in the world. Since 
fidence, knows more of our iiersonal and i ^^^ **™''^'' ^ iKlt^nA, it has there also become 



- ., . ^ , . , . a common article of diet, especially when po 

family secrets, our temptations and mis- i , , , 

•' ' tatoes are dear, 

fortunes than even the 



minister. He 
often holds our lives in his hands, and 
sometimes more. Our mothers, wives 
and sisters are forced to confide in him, 
and some times to trust themselves en- 



The grain is said to cause 
disease when eaten for a long time, and without 
other meal — the symptoms being a sculy erup- 
tion upon the hands, great prostration of the vital 
poicers, and death after a year or so, with ex- 
treme emaciation. These effects have been 



^. , . , . , , ., , , , . 1 often observed among the peasants of Italy, 

tirely in his hands. How does tlie physi- 1 ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^j ^^ ^y^^^ ^^^^ f^^^j,,. 



cian discharge this sacred trust ? how 



This is equal to Artemus Ward's best 



does he wield the tremendous power thus ; a i ^ i. \ .^ r> t *^i i >i „,„ 

, . , . , ^ ' ! eftorts, but has not Dr. Lethebv chosen 



reposed in him ? Let the spotless repu 
tation of the profession answer. The in- 
stances of abuse of confidence by medi- 
cal men are so rare as to have left no stain 
upon the honorable title of p/n/fiirifni. 



a queer model for a grave scientific lec- 
ture ? We have known the most serious 
of the above "symptoms" to occur in 
persons who (in consequence of poverty) 
j had been deprived of com meal, or a 
*^^ ' meal of any sort, but the learned Doctor's 

Metropolitan Board of Health. i experience transcends ours ; we respect- 
We see that Mr. Geo. B. Lincoln, the fully tender him our editorial hat. The 
President of the Metropolitan Board of j occurrence of " death after a year or so," 
Health, has formed a copartnership wUh | indicates a fine sense of humor. We arc 



Mr. Wm. Youngblood, of No. (5 Times 
Building, for the transaction of a General 
Advertising Agency business. We hope 



reminded of Burton's Soliloquy upon the 
fatal effects of poppies, with which, as 
Toixlles. lie is about to commit suicide: 



Sectarian Encroachments. 

The Roman Catholic Church hm again 
assumed the oflFensive, in her steadily 
I though quietly maintained struggle with 
the democratic institutions of the United 
States. Tlie Cliurch again claims re- 
cognition as a distinct power, demands 
the exclusion of the Bible from our com- 
mon schools, and that a goodly share of 
the school money shall be set aside for 
the use of the sectarian schools, in which 
children are instructed as members of 
the Catholic Church. The liberal and 
tolerant spirit of our people would pro- 
bably lead them to yield their undoubted 
rights as a majority, to retain the read- 
ing of the Bible in the public schools, if 
they were sure the struggle would end 
there. But already, in Cincinnati, those 
Catholics who look upon the battle as 
won, show their insincerity by declarinS 
that they do not wish their children to 
attend schools where no religious prin- 
ciples are inculcated, and that they must 
now have their own church-schools sup- 
ported from the public fund. In San 
Francisco, they have gone further, and 
in the Tenth Street public school, the 
Catholic members of the Board of Educa- 
tion have caused the Catechism of the 
Romish Church to be taught to the 
pujiils, Protestant as well as Catholic, at 
first, after school hours, and then during 
school hours. In this city, besides the 
various munificent donations annually 
made to the different Catholic Institu- 
tions by the City Government, we find 
that under a new section of the tax-levy, 
out of a sum of 1215,000, appropriated 
"for the support of schools educating 
children gratuitously, in said city," 
•^15(5,000, — nearly three-quarters of the 
whole— was paid in 1869 to Roman 
Catholic Church-Schools. 



Amulet-Bead Poisoning. 

(The following statement has been written at our re- 
quest by Col. Mason A. AN'eld, of the American Agri- 
cuUurzst, v/bo is conversant with the facts related there- 
in.— Editor.) 

At the time of the great E.rposition 
Univcrselle certain fragrant beads were 
sold in great numbers at the Turkish 
department. A close inspection shows 
them to be pressed in moulds and cover- 
ed with oiTiamental raised figures, oj' 



1869. J 



TABLE TALK 



3 



oriental characters. They appear to be 
composed of aromatic powdersf and per- 
fumes, formed into a paste with some 
gluey or gummy base, and then pressed. 
These beads or amulets (as it is supposed 
the figures upon them indicate prayers 
or charms, and are regarded with super- 
stitious feelings by the natives of the 
East) have been long;known to Eastern 
travelers, and have been brought to this 
country and to Europe. The sale of 
them at the French capital, however, it 
seems, set]^a fashion, to/satisfy which, 
similar beads were manufactured in 
France, so like the Turkish ones as not 
to be readily distinguished except by ex- 
perts or those familiar with both. Some, 
either French or Turkish, are common 
now in New York, and'Jare sold in sets 
of necklace, earrings and bracelets. 

A set was bought at a French store on 
Broadway in July last, for a lady living 
on a new place, a few miles from the city. 
8oon after wearing _them, she was con- 
scious of being poisoned upon her wrists, 
palms, fingersjand neck. The appear- 
ance of the poisoned spots was that of 
inflammation, the skin being filled 
with minute pustules, running, when 
rubbed, into masses of irregular form, 
which, though having a watery look, 
were very hard and lunij^y, and did not 
break. When scratched or rubbed, the 
inflammation became intense, accom- 
panied by such intolerable itching that 
the sufferer could do nothing but wring 
her hands in pain, until the nervous 
sensitiveness of the parts was blunted 
and a sort of lull ensued. It resembled 
poisoning by '"ivy " {Rhus). Two species 
of this genus, of the most i)oisonou8 
character, were known to grow upon tlu^ 
place, but as throughout her previous 
life in the countrj' the lady had been 
frequently in contact witli, and had 
handled these plants, she could hardly 
believe it was ivy poisoning. After sev- 
eral weeks, perhaps a month, of scarcely 
mitigated suffering, the itching abated 
and with it the inflammation. During 
this time the outer skin had peeled oft' 
from about the entire surface of both 
hands and wrists, and from some spots 
in the palms where the irritation was 
worst and the pain most severe, it had 
been renewed several times, each time 
being succeeded by a new crop of pus- 
tules. 

When relief came, Mrs. drove 

out to visit some friends, wearing again 
the necklace and bracelets. The neck- 
lace is worn almost upon the shoulders, 
not touching the neck but lying upon 
the dress, hence the neck was very little 
affected. After this, the poison Ijroke 
out afresh as severely as at first, and the 



same experience was repeated, but for a 
shorter period. Some two weeks after, 
being again comparatively well, she wore 
the ornaments in her own house, when 
entertaining a few friends. On retiring 
she found her hands and especially her 
wrists again troubling her, and being 
kept awake, she called to mind that each 
former attack had followed an occasion 
when she wore the amulets. 

Finally, after eight weeks of sufl'ering, 
she was again quite well. (Her general 
health had not been in the least afi'ected.) 
Her attending physician called and ex- 
pressed doubts as to her view of the cause, 
and asked to see the bracelets. She 
brought them down from her chamber 
in her bare hands, holding them proba- 
bly not more than half a minute. The 
next day such parts of her hands as 
would naturally have been touched by 
them were again " broken out " with the 
same pustules. This attack lasted but 
a few days. 

Several other persons experimented 
with the bracelets. The writer wore one 
all one evening, frequently breathing 
upon it, and rubbing it upon the wrist 
until the skin was quite red yet no poi- 
sonous effects followed. Her sister wore 
both necklace and bracelets without harm 

Again, weeks after, all symptoms of 

poison had disappeared, Mrs. again 

carefully laid the amulets in her trunk, 
made a visit to some friends at a distance, 
and gave them to a friend, handling 
them as little as possible. The next day 
the irritation with all its now well known 
appearances and accompaniments return- 
ed, causing no ^little discomfort. It 
seems as if this could hardly be a solitary 
case, and in the hope that some other 
sufferer may be led to discover the true 
cause of the affliction, it is thus describ- 
ed in detail. 

There is scarcely any end of remedies 
which kind friends will recommend to 
such a suflerer — skim-milk, cream, sour- 
milk, whey, witch-hazel, lime-water, 
solution of soda, saleratus-water, lead- 
water, carbonic acid water, lard, sulphur 
and lard, dry flowers of sulphur upon 
the slightly greased surface, — all these 
were tried with partial good effect if any, 
the last bringing comfort at times when 
nothing else would. It was found to be 
best to wear gloves at night and to put 
a little dry sulphur into them. Soaking 
the hands in hot water gives temporary 
relief almost always, but the parts must 
be quickly and thoroughly dried. Gly- 
eerine causes burning pain, and washing 
in cold water causes chapping, which 
gi-eatly adds to the suffering. These re- 
marks apply, we believe, eqtially t« ivy 
poisoning. 



Encouragement of Art. 

In glancing over the premium-list of 
the Livingston Co. (N. Y.) Agricultural 
Fair, for the current year, we observe 
among the premiums offered the follow- 
ing : 

For the best Bull $16.00 

" " " Boar 5.00 

" " " specimen Worsted 

Work a.oo 

" '• " Oil Painting 1.00 

" " " Crayon or PencH 

Drawing 1.00 

" "2d" do. do. do. 0.60 

The managers of that Fair take Dry- 
den's view : 

" For Art may err, but Nature cannot mias." 



Occupation for Women. 

There is no occupation for which wo- 
men are better fitted by nature than that 
of the Chemist or Druggist. The science 
of chemistry can be as readily learned in 
the school and laboratory by woman as 
by man, and, as an Art, it requires the 
delicate manipulation, fine perceptions 
and mathematical accuracy, in which 
women excels. In the drug stores for 
dispensing medicines, but little physical 
strength is needed, and the business is 
very remunerative. The late frequency 
of fatal accidents, resulting from the 
carelessness of drug clerks, in putting 
up prescriptions, points with emphasis 
to the expediency of substituting female 
prescription clerks, as other things being 
equal, the superior conscientiousness of 
women, especially where human life is 
involved, would go far to insure safety. 



Chat. 

BY KRATER FARRAGO. 

—In oriental lands no one ever thinks of 
proposing any matter of business, how- 
ever slight, to another, or even entering 
into any conversation more serious than 
an exchange of common-places, without 
first having eaten with him. We re- 
verse things ; finish all the business, and 
then come together to the table for small 
talk. For bodily health and good diges- 
tion, it is wholesome to be deliberate in 
eating and have genial conversation 
passing around the board. If you see a 
man eating all to himself with no friendly 
chat to exchange with others you may 
set him down in yoitr note-book as a 
sure candidate for dyspepsia and the 
doctor. The hyena drags his lunch into 
a cave all by himself and has nothing to 
say to any body, except for an occasional 
growl if some other hyena do but look 
at his bone. Now the hyena's face is the 
very type of the dyspeptic's. 



TABLE TALK 



[Decembek, 



— Govirmands and epicures have made a great 
deal of the table, and its pleasures have been 
lauded in poetic numbers, as though the seat of 
happiness for a man were in — the palate! I 
One hard old Roman wished it were three 
cubits long, instead of a few inches, that be 
might enjoy the luxurj" of tasting morsels . 
of brains and fatted livers with prolonged in- 
dulgence. What a pity he was not made a 
giraffe ! What a pity he was a man ! 

— Yet the table is a happy institution and ; 
worthy to be celebrated by the poets. That is ' 
to say, where viands, well-cooked, healthful 
and savory, and in sensible variety, are disposed 
in neatness and good taste around the board ; 
where abundance shows at once the thrift of 
the householder, the fertility of grain fields, ' 
and the richness of the pastures in a land in 
which no one need be poor ; where again old 
and young gather together, not to gorman- 
dize, nor to pamper depraved tastes, but to ! 
satisfy good, strong, healthy appetites, quick- 
ened in nature's best methods. Hunger is no 
crime, and people that don't care what they 
eat, fish, flesh, fowl or sawdust, we don't i 
care to be acquainted with. In fact we take to ' 
a man with all our heart, who, down to a good ; 
old age, persists that nobody could ever make 
a pie like his mother ! 

— There the family are gathered, and they 1 
must be a stupid set, if there is no pleasant . 
chat flying around ; better than wine, and high- 
seasoning of foods is this chatter of the young- 
est, genial conversation of the older ones, and 
mutual interest of all in one another's experi- 
ences of the day. Once in a while a stranger 
thrown in, gives greater zest, as he, mayhap, 
tells tales of travel, or unrolls his budget of 
stories. The table is the best part of the fire- 
side, and it is a good thing that each one has a 
place and a seat. Then if there come an 
absence, or a going away to the far-away home, 
the associations of the particular seat are pre- 
cious, hallowed. 

— We once did a mean thing, peeping into 
some half open blinds. We were leading a 
cheerless and lonely life in a great city — noth ing 
is more lonely than the throng when you 
sleep in a fourth story room and eat at restau- 
rants — the blinds let out a glimpse that brought 
the tears, and we could not help it — that is help 
looking in to see a family scene so charming. 
Grandfather, a hale old gentleman at the centre 
table reading a big book, grandmother knitting 
a little, tiny stocking, sons and daughters and 
sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, and young- 
sters, some of them playing cards, some of them 
in happy looking mother a arms. Everyone 
had something in hand, and all were so full of 
cheer, it seemed as though we must go in and 
tell them that we had once belonged to a 
family, though several thousand miles away, 
and if they only knew it they would bid us 
be at home with them. If people only knew 
each other, and were at home with one another 
as one big family, what a world this would 
be! 

— But going out into the world means going 
out to elbow your way through the throng. We 
do get provoked at a man who spreads his 
elbows to cover more than half the sidewalk 
and marches along stifily as though there 
were no one else in the world. But there is 
philosophy in it. If you have not some man- 
ner of stiffness in these joints you will be apt to 
find yom-self in the gutter presently along with 
other rubbish. There is a good deal of savagery 



yet extant, and spite of laws and customs 
and amenities much need of the original appeal 
to force. After much struggling with a softer 
nature we have concluded that it is best, on the 
whole, to stand for our half of the sidewalk, 
and we shall probably teach our boy so unless 
the next generation proves better than the 
present. 

— If all families were what they should be 
the world would grow better faster, and people j 
would be willing to let one another have a 
chance without this everlasting barbarism of 
pushing and elbowing. The family is a divine 
institution, blessed for good if parents under- 
stand their commission and its responsibilities. 
When a new generation comes to manhood 
and you want to know what they are to be, 
ask what their parents were. Few children, 
indeed, survive bad home tutelage. They may 
make money, become aldermen or go to Con- 
gress ; but they carry the record along with 
them of faithless parents. A parent must be 
earnest, faithful, devout, neither too harsh in 
handling juvenile exuberance, nor careless in 
letting weeds grow rank in a child's character 
till they are too stoutly rooted to be torn up. 
Above all, a good parent will win the affections 
and the tender confidences of the little ones from 
the beginning. Such a parent can hardly 
have a child grow up thankless and bad. 
Never, O never, takeitfor'granted that your boy 
is so naturally bad that you can not do anything 
with him ! 

— We are not after writing a senmon, so you 
need not begin to arrange yourself for your 
usual nap under such soporific circumstances. 
Talking about sleeping in church, we remem- 
ber something we heard a Doctor of Divinity 
say years ago. The talk was of the trick, 
then in vogue, of putting people into sleep by 
manipulating their heads, called mesmerism. 
"Pshaw," said the Dr., "that is nothing, I 
can get into my pulpit any day, and go to 
pawing with my hands, and I will have a 
whole church full asleep in five minutes." 

— There are two sides to all things, — we can 
think of but one exception, just now, and that 
is the rainbow — two sides to this matter of 
sleeping in church. Let a man of active 
habits, and full-blooded, come in from the 
bustle and stir of the outside into the hush of 
the sanctuary, and try to constrain his limbs 
into stillness and his brain into close thinking, 
listening to a monotonous voice of one reading 
or declaiming from the pulpit, anything but 
talking right at him, and it will be a wonder of 
physics, let alone metaphysics, if he is not very 
presently nodding more than is needful for as- 
sent to the preacher's doctrine. Think of 
what a frightful battle is goingjon, yonder, in 
Deacon Farmer's head while his sense of 
decency, of dignity and of worshipfulness is 
struggling with the wicked imps of sleep. 
You have been there, and know something of 
what it is — a sharp fight but not a rousing one. 
Now the imps are ahead, that is they have his 
head in the chancery of nod. Down, down, 
down goes that manly brow, down to a certain 
magic point — did you ever notice that it is just 
about so far every time ? Now with a quick, 
nervous jerk the Deacon is himself again. He 
feels awkward enough, gives a slight cough, 
hopes nobody has seen him, fixes a good, 
steady eye on the minister, and thinks he can 
keep track of the sermon this time. But it is 
just that steady eye on the pulpit which is 
fatal, and the imps well know it. They travel 



up and down the track, from it to the minister, 
till the air swims with their gymnastics, they 
weave their web over the drooping lid and 
away goes the poor head again nid-nid-nodding 
off to sleep. Why did not Bunyan have this 
battle of Christian with the imps in the 
Pilgrim's Progress ? But those were stirring 
times, and men at meetings were on the look 
out for the bailiff, and preachers were too 
much in earnest to narcotize their people. 

— But is the Deacon the wickedest man in 
church ? Let us see. There is Mr. Pierce (we 
pronounce it Purse in our neighborhood) op- 
posite, he does not sleep in meeting ; not he, 
but his eye is cleiir, cold steady as a basilisk's. 
Probably he is following the discourse. No sir! 
more likely following a balloon in its flight. 
He is working up some grand speculation, in 
which his piety, his religion, his steadfast 
attention to the minister are make-weights and 
ballast just to steady a project for picking the 
pockets of his fellow-christians in a respectable 
way. Of course he will be sharp enough to 
make it all straight with the inquiring world 
by some happy donations to the church, which 
will be put down in his books as incidental 
expenses, percentages in the speculation ! Who 
is the wickedest man ? 



A Christmas Song of Olden Time. 

The violet sleeps l)ener.th the snow. 
The lilac-bush is spiked and bare. 
Dumb is the brooklet's bubbling flow, 

And silvered o'er the pine's black hair ; 
Shrinking within his soft great coat. 

The owl sits muflled to the chin, 
The woods resound no wild bird's note. 
The squirrel curls his hole within. 
Christmas is here, 
Skies frosty clear. 
Woods chill and drear. 

The ponds are dead with cold, the road 
Rings iron to iron beneath the hoof. 
And troops of madden'd schoolboys load. 

With homeward shout, the postchaise roof ; 
Fond hands bedeck the village church. 

And lads, with cold cheeks crimson bright. 
Bear holly -boughs into the porch, 
And happy bells peal day and night, 
"Christmas is here, 
O time most dear 
Of all the year ! " 

And now, by mansion, cot, and farm. 

While trembling stars peep forth and freeze. 
Streaming from window rich and warm, 

A dream of sunshine gilds the trees. 
The chimneys mutter gusty wrath. 

The waits are chiming down below ; 
Pile on more logs, draw round the hearth. 
And gem the bright wine in its glow. 
Christmas is here. 
Come all draw near. 
And make good cheer ! 



Foreign News. 

Majed ben Said, the Sultan of Zanzibar, 
having been invited to attend the opening of 
the Suez Canal, states in his reply to M. de 
Lesseps, that the most welcome news which 
the soul craves, and the most enticing of the 
mysteries which delight the heart, is the ten- 
dering of an attention more delicate than the 
mornings breeze that falls upon the dew on the 
flowers and the groves, coming as it does from 
one who unites generosity with perfection, 
glory with greatness, correct ideas with an iron 
will, in one word from the President of the 
Suez Canal, the bearer of the order of the 
Mediidieh, «SiC., &c. 



1869. J 



TABLE TALK. 



Peof. Charles A. Jot, of Columbia College, 
aud Editor of the J'nirrKil of Applied OhemiKtry, 
says in the November number of the Juvnutl — 
•'A few months ago we saw an autograph letter 
from Baron Liebig upon the subject of these 
powders {IlorxforiV » Bread Prcparntwn), in 
which the first chemical authority of the day 
says that ■ the nutritive value of flour is in- 
creased ten per cent, by this discovery ; the 
result is the same as if the fruitfulness of our 
harvest fields were increased a like amount.' 
Liehlg, by this judgment classes llorsford <imong 
the henefactors of Im niee. He lias made two 
blades of grass to grow where but one grew 
before. There is ito qvrstion if the rnUie of 
these Baking Powders was understood, but thai 
they would find favor in every household." 



Awful Threat! 

A young man belonging to Fort Scott recently 
went down to the edge of Arkansas on busi- 
ness; while there, he went to a party, and 
while at the party danced often, and became 
very free with one of the settler's wives. 
Rackensack stood it as long as he could, but 
finally, becoming enraged, he went up to the 
gay youth and said : "Look here Mister! that 
is my wife you are dancing with." "Well, 
what of it ?" said the youth. " Why just this ; 



Effects of Santonine. 

" Professor Giovanni suggests that no Santo- 
nine should be given, except that which has 
already tiu-ned yellow from exposure to light. 
When other Santonine is given it is absorbed 
into the system, and some of it is carried to the 
aqueous humor, where it is changed by the ac- 
tion of light into yellowish, or yellowish green 
spots; and there is some danger of causing 
serious derangement of vision, by the perma- 
nence of this dye, or else the doses should only 
be given at night." 

The above is from the ]\\ T. Medical 
Gazette. The effects thus ascribed to 
Santonine are of so serious a nature, that 
the trutli or falsehood of the above state- 
ment should be at once demonstrated. 
Tlie ])eculiar principle of wormseed, 
known as Santonine. is constantlv ad- 
ministered to children for worms, and 
without fear of any sucli possilile result. 
We have never before known sucli inju- 
rious properties ascribed to this medicine, 
but we remember a case reported a num- 
ber of 3-ears ago (Ann. de Therap, 1857) 
in which several members of a family 



who had taken a considerable cfuantitv 
you dance with her agam, you speak to her, „ , , . , . , , , 

you even look at her again and I'll blow the ^ of tliis remedy, e.xperiencod such a change 
top of your head off!" "Now look here," , "^ theirpowerto distinguish colors, that 
returned the youth coolly, " do you see that I'ed appeared to them as orange and blite 
cotton umbrella setting thar?" "Well, s'pose ' became green. 



I do ?" " Well, you handle that umbrella, you 
touch that umbrella, you even hok at that um- 
brella, and I'll ram it down your throat and 
spread it?" Rackensack scooted. 



Remarkable Operation— Extirpa- 
tion of a Kidney. 

At a meeting of the New York Medical 
—A half-witted messenger was once sent in Journal Assciation, Dr. H. Knapp made a 
great haste from Glasgow to Edinburgh for communication concerning a new triumph of 
two doctors to come and see his sick master. I ^"''S^ry, namely, the successful ertirpeitton of a 
On his way he was stopped by an inquiry as j '^»*^<'2' ^y Prof. G. Simon, of Heidelberg, 
to his master's illness. "He's no dead yet," ' Thepatientonwhomtheoperationwasperform- 
was the reply, " but he soon will be, for I'm \ ^^'' '''"'^y '"^ August last, was a woman. The 
fast on the way for twa Edinburgh doctors to ' P^^^'^nt experienced some fever during the two 
come and visit him." ' ^^^ weeks after the operation, but recovered 

entirely within six -weeks.— The Med. and Surg. 

Reporter. 



Antidote to Carbolic Acid. 

Messrs. Calvert wish to make known the fact 



— A short time ago a close-fisted fanner on 

the Sandy River, in Maine, died, after devising 

$1 to his only son. The old gentleman was 

dulyburiedin the venerable chvirchyard, which i ^.'"^ , ., ., . , 

„„«,_,j i -1 1 t,- L ., , , I that sweet oil or castor oil m large quantitv is 

suffered a terrible washing away by the late ., , . .• i . . , ,. ., ""'"j' '= 

fl„^ri „„/! „.!,„-,• . • 1 i X the best antidote to carbolic acid, when it has 

ttooa, and a short time ago his body was found . „ j . . 

„„ „-,„ ,, . , u • t , , oeen swallowed m poisonous doses. 

opposite the son s place, having been brought 

down the river a long distance. When the 

tender-hearted son was informed of the fact, 

he made the touching remark, " Probably come 

back after that dollar !" 



— "John," said a pious uncle to his nephew 

who was paying his first visit to the citv, '„!„ x- ^ rt '' ^ 4-i° i" 

• ' Toiw, w„v ■ f. . 1 s * ■ .1.- ' ^^^ properties of Garb. Acid as a med 

John, we rein the habit of saying something 

before we eat." " All right," said John. " Go 

ahead: You can't turn ?»>/ stomach!" 



-Half 
Teariy Abstract. 

Until a better antidote is discovered, 
the above item should be kept in mind, 
as the free use of Carbolic Acid just now 
will probably lead to occasional accidents. 
Physicians are rapidly learning the value 

i- 
cinal agent, but aside from the fact that 
the term " Carbolir Arid" is applied to 
several different preparations, of greatly 
varying strength, there is reason to be- 
lieve that its action upon individuals 



Cats and Dogs. 
In the United Kingdom during the year 
ending March 31st, 1869, 680,000 dogs were varies greatly; SO much so indeed, that 
taxed five shillings sterling each. ^ dog-tax ; to some persons a very small quantity is 
at the same rate per head in this country, poisonous. 

would soon pay off the public debt, judging -*^ 

by the nightly howls in our vicinity ; and the —American Gentleman. Go ahead, now you! 
same tax upon cats in the city of New York, Dxke. To whom are you speaking, sir? 
would beggar the inhabitants of that princely | American Gent. Wal, I guess I'm talkin' to 
municipality. | a man in the way. 



Preparation of Food. 

" Let me write the songs of a nation," 
said a wise man, " and I care not who 
makes their laws." 

"Let us provide the food for the 
nation,"' say we, " and we care not who 
governs it : for the people shall be 
healthy, contented and happy." 

The food of the American nation is, 
as a rule, execralile. Producing all the 
elements necessary for man's diet, in 
variety and quantity, our tables are a 
disgrace to the age we live in. This is 
not altogether owing to the character of 
our servant-cooks ; it is, in great part, 
the fault of the employers, the man as 
well as the woman of the household. 
The wife deserves blame because she 
does not strive to acquire the theoretical 
and in-aetical knowledge required in the 
kitchen. The husband is greatly in 
fault, inasmuch as he does not often ap- 
preciate improvement in the preparation 
of his food, but c/obbles down whatever 
is set before liim, with his mind dwell- 
ing upon his business or cares, until his 
Inirdened stomach cries out. " Enough." 

Step into one of our popular restau- 
rants, not one of the " sixpenny plate " 
order, but into one of those down-town 
saloons, where business men of means and 
of ability to indulge their appetites resort. 
Observe the eager, hunted, wolfish ex- 
pression of most of these "feeders." 
Struggling between the pangs of hunger 
on the one hand, and anxiety to get back 
to the desk or store on the other, they 
cram down their food with such haste, 
tjiat the saliva can not flow fast enough 
to supply the necessary moisture, and 
tliey are forced to wash down the dry 
morsels with frequent draughts of ice- 
water to avoid strangulation. Is this 
exaggerated ? We speak fromTlailv ob- 
servation, and have not told the half 
And the /oor?— what of that ? The roast 
meats are generally of good quality; but 
when served, have lost their distinctive 
flavor. The beefsteaks are juiceless and 
tough. The vegetables are watery. 
The puddings are enriched with eggs 
and grease, and the sauce! — lard and 
sugar for " hard-sauce ;" ilour, water and 
sugar, flavored with cheap rum, for 
" wine sauce." Pies are— well, they are 
pies — the American's delight and stand- 
by. Given, a pale, soft top-crust, smell- 
ing strongly of lard ; a soggy, putty-like 
paste at the bottom, and a dab of stale, 
half-cooked fruit between, and the 
product is a Pie ! Patriotic feeling and 
a regard for national susceptibilities for- 
bids further comment on this portion 
of the feast. 

AA hy do our countrymen accept such 
fare quietly, and without even protest? 



TABLE TALK. 



[December, 



In too many cases, because their 
stomachs and sense of taste are so de- 
praved by long use of liad food, that 
they can hardly appreciate delicate and 
well-cooked dishes. At home, it is very 
much tlie same. Tlie wife is ignorant 
or indifferent. The husband struggles 
feebly again,st tlie tide for a while, but 
finally succumbs, either in despair or 
from pity for his discouraged wife. The 
cure for this state of things must begin 
at home. Let the thoughtful wife re- 
member that the health and temper of 
her household are dependent upon the 
table. Let her study and practice the 
refinements, the sciejice and art of cook- 
ery. Xo true woman will feel that such 
occupation is uuwortiiy or degrading, 
although many will find it difficult to 
spare the necessary time : but such 
should consider that tlieir time, how- 
ever valuable, can not be more protitalily 
employed than in thus ministering to 
the comfort and health of their families. 
If the table is always supplied with 
£ood bread or biscuit and butter, much 
grumbling will Ije av(;ided. But how 
are we to obtain good bread 'i Surely, 
not from American liakers ! And if we 
undertake to make our own bread, with 
veast, how often do we succeed ? The 
repeated failures are not the fault of the 
liread-maker, fur success in making 
yeast-bread depends upon the quality of 
the yeast, the temjierature and moisture 
of the atmosphere, the degree of fermen- 
tation attained, and upon many other 
subtle conditions whicli are yet imper- 
fectly understood. For biscuit, rolls, 
&c., we may tise .soda and cream-of-tar- 
tar; but here again we meet with difli- 
culties; the soda and saleratus are adul- 
terated and of varying strength, and the 
creani-of-tartar .sold for domestic jnir- 
po,ses contains alum, plaster, stale Hour, 
and sometimes even worse ingredients, 
so that it is impossible to exactly adjust 
the quantity of acid and alkali. There 
is doubt whether pure cream-of-tartar 
(bi-tartratc of potash) is not debilitating 
and injuriotis, but it is very certain that 
such mixtures as we are forced to use 
exert a very decidedly bad influence 
upon our health. The " Yeast Powders " 
Mud " Baking Powders'" of the day con- 
tain no "yeast" in any form. l)ut are 
composed in general of the cheap and 
inferior soda and cream-of-tartar de- 
scribed above. 

It is remarkable that but one man uf 
science and chemical skill has ever at- 
tempted to invent or discover some new 
agent for raising broad, which should be 
healthful, cheap, and sure in its action. 
Professor E. X. Horsford (professor of 
Chemistry in Harvard University,) long 



studied this subject with great jjersever- 
ance and enthusiasm. He finally pro- 
duced a substitute for yeast and other 
kinds of leaven, and offered it to a few 
scientific men and physicians for trial. 
A demand immediately arose for it, 
which it was impossible to supply, and 
Professor Horsford was compelled to 
make arrangements with a prominent 
chemical establishment in Providence, 
R. I., for its manufacture, of course, 
under his own supervision. This inven- 
tion of Prof. Horsford, known as " Hors- 
ford's Bread Preparation," has solved all 
j the problems in the production of light, 
[palatable and healthy bread. It is used 
i as well for biscuit, muffins, cakes and all 
; other farinaceous food. We can assure 
the discotiraged housewife of relief from 
at least one of her domestic troubles, if 
she will use this preparation. 

We shall treat of the preparation of 
other kinds of food in future numbers of 
Table Talk. 



To the Point. 

Practice in mercantile correspondence, 
however unfavorable to the culttire of 
the imagination, is certainly calculated 
to develop a concise and perspicuous 
style. The following example also 
teaches the value of punctuation. If the 
reader " minds his stops " he may be able 
to see the point: 

An English merchant in the interior 
wished his agent to attend immediately 
to the shipment on a vessel of a cargo of 
coal he had just ptirchased, and sent the 
following letter ; 

; board. (Se-mi-col-on board.) 

The next mail brought the following 
reply from the agent: 

: (t'ol-on). 

1^^* 

"I Have No Time." 

The Chancellor IVAquesseau finding 
that his wife always kept him waiting a 
quarter of an hour after the dinner-bell 
had rung, resolved to devote the time to 
writing a work on jurisprudence, and 
putting the project into execution, in 
course of time produced a work in four 
quarto volumes. 



The Forged Will. 

A few years since a man of high respectabil- 
ity was tried in England on a charge of forg- 
ing a will, in which it was discovered he had 
an indirect interest to a large amount. Mr. 
Warren was the associate prosecuting attorney, 
and the case was tried before Lord Denman. 
The prisoner being arraigned and the formali- 
ties gone through with, the prosecutor, placing 
his thumb over the seal, held up the will and 
demanded of the prisoner if he had seen the 
testivtor sign that instrument, to which ho 
promptly answered he had. 

" And did you sign it at his request as sub- 
scribing witness?" 

"I did." 

■' Was it sealed with red or black wax.'' 

"With red wax." 

" Did you see him seal it with red wax." 

"Idid.^' 

" Where was the testator when he sealed the 
will?" 

"In bed. ' 

' ' Pray, how long a piece of wax did he 
use ? ' 

" About three or four inches long.'" 

" Who gave the testator this piece of wax ?" 

"I did.'' 

" Where did you get it ?'' 

" From the drawer of his desk. " 

" How did he light that piece of wax?" 

"With a candle." 

" Where did that piece of candle come 
from ?" 

" I got it out of a cupboard in his room." 

" How long was that piece of candle?" 

" Perhaps four or five inches long." 

" Who lit that piece of candle?" 

"Hit it. ' 

"With what?" 

"With a match." 

" Where did you get a match ?" 

" On the mantel-shelf in his room." 

Here Warren paused, and fixing his large, 
deep blue eyes upon the prisoner, he held the 
will up above his head, his thumb still resting 
upon the seal, and said in a solemn, measured 
tone: 

" Now, sir, upon your solemn oath, you saw 
the testator sign that will — he signed it in his 
bed — at his request you signed it as a subscrib- 
ing witness — you saw him seal it — it was with 
red wax he sealed it — a piece of wax, too. 
three or four inches long — he lit that wax with 
a piece of candle which you procured for him 
from a cupboard — ^you lit that candle by a 
match which you found on the mantel-shelf ?" 

"Idid." 

"Once more, sir — upon your solemn oath 
you, did!'" 

"Idid!" 

" My lord — it's a wafer ! ! " 



A Good Paper to Advertise in. 

If one w.ants to commit a wickedness and 
hide it so effectually that even Mrs. Beecher 
Stowe cannot scent it out, or the recording 
angel find it at the great day, let him bury it in 
the CongrfKsionol (jllobe. It will slumber there 
beyond the reach of the last trump in the final 
judgment. — D&nti Piatt. 



— Mythology tells us that lo died because of [ 
her intense love for Jupiter : but the charm of I 
the romantic story has lately been destroyed, j 
by a chemist discovering /o-dide of potassitmj. j 
— I>niggist. * | 



Wayfarer in the Snow. 

Cheerily the firelight plays 

All about the little room. 
How the dancing, glancing blaze 
Doth from nook and corner chase 

Like a ghost — the gloom ! 

Here the world is wan and white ; 

Lonely is the way I go ; 
Only stars with tremblmg light 
Look down on the Christmas night. 

On the Christmas snow. 

So, the starlight for the flre, — 
Forth I pass upon my road ; 

And remember, if I tire. 

Earthly darkness brings us nigher 
To the light of God. M. j. 



1869.] 



TABLE TALK. 



Horsford's Bread Preparation. 

W?uit is it far T 

It is for "Baising" Bread, Bolls, Biscuit, 
Waffles, Cakes, Dumplings, etc., etc., and takes 
the place of Yeast, Soda or Salseratus, Cream 
of Tartar, sour Milk or any other form of 
leaven. 

How does it differ fi'om other forms of 
leaven or other " Baking Powders ?" 

Essentially in this : that all other " raising " 
or leavening agents supply in themselves 
nothing which is nutritious or required by the 
human system ; Horsford's Bread Preparation 
does contain the elements of nutrition in such 
proportions and form as renders them immedi- 
ately assimilable. 

Why shtndd ice use itf 

Kecause it is manufactured only by the 
well-known Rumford Chemical Works of 
Providence, R. I., under the personal super- 
vision of Professor E. N. Horsford, of Har- 
vard University, and the purity of the in- 
gredients can therefore be relied upon. 

liectrnse the directions for its use are suuplc 
and easily understood. The proportions of 
Acid and Soda are not left to careless or igno- 
rant cooks. 

Jiecause Bread, Biscuit — any form of far- 
inaceous food — made with this Preparation, 
may be eaten Hot as well as cold by In ralids 
and Dyspeptirs. 

Been use the nutritive value of flour is in- 
creased by the use of Prof. Horsford's inven- 
tion ten per cent. (See letter from Baron 
Liebig to Prof. Horsford.) 

liec/mse but a few moments time are re- 
quired to prepare any form of Bread for baking. 
The result is certain, and the bread always 
good. Climate, weather, temperature do not 
affect the result. 

Because sweet and delicious Hot Biscuit, 
Rolls, &c., are made by the use of Horsford's 
Preparatioji, vfith fiour, watei; and salt only, — 
neither milk, butter, nor other shortening 
being necessary. 

Because it supplies to the human system 
the Phosphates which exist in the whole grain, 
but which are removed with the bran in the 
manufacture of fine flovu-. 

Because Horsford's Bread Preparation is 
the only "Baking Powder" which is ^ised, ap- 
proved, and publidy recommended by scientifc 
men. Its use is almost universal among phy- 
sicians. 

Among those who use and have given Hors- 
ford's Bread Preparation their miqualified ap- 
proval, we are at liberty to mention : 

The Late Dr. VALENTINE MOTT, Xcw York. 

Dr. WILLARD PARKER 

The Late Dr. HORACE GREEN. . . . 

Dr. WM. H. DWINELLE 

Dr. FORDYCE BARKER 

Dr. JOHN H. GRISCOM 

Dr. AUGUST JACOBI 

Prof. CHAS. A. JOY, Columbia Col.. . 

Prof. C.F.CHANDLER.Columbia Col. » 

Dr. JOHN TORREY', Columbia Col. 

Prof. R. OGDEN DOREMUS 

Dr. WM. A. HAMMOND, Prof, of 
Diseases of the Mind and Nervous 
System, and of Clinical Medicine in 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
and late Surgeon General, U.S. Army " 

MASON C. WELD, (Chemist), Asso- 
ciate Editor American Agriculturist,.. » 

S. H. WALES, Editor Scientific Ameri- 
can. '■ 

J. B. LYMAN. Agricultural Editor N.Y. 
Tribune, and Associate Editor "Hearth 
and Home," » 

ORANGE JUDD, Proprietor and Edi- 
tor American Agriculturist " 

D. D. T. MOORE; Proprietor and Edi- 
tor Moore's Rural New Yorker -^ 

Rev.CRA.MMOND KENNEDY, Asso- 
ciate Editor *' Christian Union," " 

Dr. J. R. NICHOLS Bost., Mass. 

Dk.C.T. JACKSON, Mass. State Chem. v 

Prof. J. C. BOOTH, of U. S. Mint Phila., Penn. 

Prof. SAMUEL H. DICKSON, Jeffer- 
son Medical College « 

Prof. C. S. GAUNT, M.D 

Prof. SAMUEL JACKSON, M.D.,Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania n 

Dr. A. P. WYLIE Chester, S. C. 

Dr. THOMAS S. JONES Jackson, La. 

Dr. A.J. COMFORT Ft. Ripley, Minn. 

Horsford's Bread Preparation is put up in 
packages sufflcient for 25 pounds of flour. 

RETAIL PRICE (with Tin Measure) 30cts, 

L-.. WILSON, LOCKWOOD, EVERETT & CO., 
[ General Agents, 

301 Fulton St., N. Y. City. 



A New York Bakery. 

The N. T. Evening Post lately gave an 
Interesting account of the Bakeries of New 
York. One establishment mentioned in this 
article is in Rutgers Street, and has been in 
operation for thirty years. It cousumeadaily, for 
bread alone, ninety barrels of flour, and a little 
matter of five barrels per day for ginger snaps. 
The ovens used for baking the bread are 
eighteen in number, of the old-fashioned, 
tile-bottomed kind, and are heated at the 
mouth, as of old. These ovens hold ."iOO loaves 
each, and turn out at one baking, sufflcient 
rations for 9,000 ver\' hungry men. Twelve 
bake-stores are supplied daily with all their 
stock from this parent establishment. The 
price of flour is a matter of some consequence 
to such a concern, as a permanent change of 
but ten cents per baiTel would make a differ- 
ence in their profits of $3,000 per annum. 
But the foregoing statistics of this huge 
establishment dwindle into insignificance, 
when compared with the enormous quantity 
of flour made into bread, in 1869, with Hors- 
ford's Bread Preparation, and the time is fast 
approaching when this great Bakery will with 
others, use nothing but the Hor.^fovd Prepara- 
tion in mixing all their bread. 



— Recently young Vanderbilt attempted to 
go into bankruptcy. He stated his debts as 
over $300,000. Among others to whom he 
owed various sums of money was the Hon. 
Horace Greeley. The philosopher was visited 
by yoimg Vanderbilt just when he was busily 
writing one of those pleasant little articles on 
political economy. 

" I have come to get your endorsement on a 
note, Mr. Greeley," said Vanderbilt. 

The philosopher he.ird the request with com. 
posure. His mind, however, was engrossed 
with his work. 

Mechanically he took the check which was 
presented to him and endorsed it. Young Van. 
derbilt went direct to a bank and undertook to 
get the check cashed. 

No one could decipher the endorsement. 
Young Vanderbilt said it was the name of 
Horace Greeley. Every person in the bank at 
tempted to decipher it. Then an aged and 
trustworthy clerk was dispatched to the Tribune 
office with the cheek. 

" My God, man, what do you want ?" in- 
quired the politico-economic philosopher, 
greatly annoyed when the clerk interrupted him. 

'• Is that your signatiu'e ? " 

"I think it is," replied the philosopher, with- 
out looking up. 

•■ Are you sure it is ?'' 

" I can't say for certain." replied the phlloao. 
pher, still bending over his work. 

" I must know for certain whether it is or 
not " 

Mr. Greeley took the check in his hand 
scrutinized it. and handed it back, saying, "It 
is all right ; that is my endorsement. " 

Young Vanderbilt received the money from 
the bank, and when the check became due it 
was not paid, and Mr. Greeley had to pay it. 

This came to the knowledge of the elder 
Vanderbilt, and forthwith he posted to the 
Tribune ot&ce. He found the philosopher, as 
his son had found him, busily writing, but this 
time he was preparing a lecture. 

"lam come to say, Mr. Greeley," said the 
old Commodore, "that I will not pay a cent of 
that check.'' 

Mr. Greeley looked up from his manuscript, 
and mildly remarked, "I did not ask you to." 

The Commodore vanished. — ^V. F. Sun. 



Tlie following letter has been handed 
to lis by Mr. George F. Wilson, the 
Treasurei' of the Rumford C'hemical 
Work.s, of Providence, E .1. It is from 
Peter Henderson, Usq., the Seedsman, 
Florist, and Agricultural Writer; he 
needs no introduction from us where 
ever an agricultural newspaper is taken. 
j or agricultural books circulate. 

New York, October 20, 1 8G8. 
To Mr. Geo. F. Wil.son. 
Dear Sir, — Last spring I purchased from 
i your office in New York one ton of your 
i "Wilson's Ammoniated Superithosphate of 
Lime," costing $60, and at the same time I 
j bought a ton of No. 1 Peruvian Guano. 
j costing $85, with a view to test the Superphos- 
I phate against the Guano, by careful experi- 
I ment. Accordingly, two acres of our richest 
i market garden ground was measured off, and 
carefully ploughed. One acre was sown with 
I llie Guano, and the other with your Super- 
i phosphate, on the ploughed surface, then 
j thoroughly harrowed in and sown with beets 
j and onions, equal quantities on each acre 
! The crops on both acres were unusually early 
i and large, netting a clear profit of $500 per 
I acre, (even at the low rates at which all early 
j vegetables sold last summer in New York). 
{ There was no perceptible difference in the 
I effects produced by the Guano and Superphos- 
phate on the crops of onions and beets ; both 
were extra fine. But the second crojt {celery) 
II.OW shows the finest on the arre fertilised with 
your Superphosphate. 

Very respectfully yom-s, 

PETER HENDERSON. 



The ne.xt letter on the .same subject, 
was written to John Kno.r, Esq., the 
'•■ Small Fruit" Grower, by Col Mason C. 
Weld, of New York, well known as an 
Agricultural Chemist, and Associate 
Editor of the "American Agriculturist." 

New York, Jime 7th, 18iii>. 
2'rt John Kso.x, Esq., Ptttshnrg, Pa. 

Dear Sir,— My friend Mr. Potter, of Wil- 
son, Lockwood, Everett & Co., of New York, 
tells me you have made inquiry concerning 
"Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
Lime," and asks if I will give you mj' opinion 
of it. / buy it for my oicn use, knowing the 
article and having made comparative tests with 
it last year, in which it stood better than any 
other Superphosphate that I tried, save one, 
and fully equal, if not better than that one on 
certain crops. I am personally acquainted 
with the members of the firm of Wilson, Lock- 
wood Everett & Co., and know that their re- 
presentations can be strictly relied upon. 

Yours truly, 3LAS0N C. WELD. 

Wilson's Ammoniated Superphos- 
phate of Lime, above refered to, can be 
had of us direct, or through tiny of the 
agricultural seed stores, in any quantity, 
from 100 lbs. to 1.000 ton-s. 

Price, $60 per Ton. 

A pamphlet, descriptive of the above 
fertilizer, sent free upon application. 

Every ton warranted equal to standard. 

Wilson, Lock-wood, Everett & Co., 

GENERAL AGENTS, 

201 Fulton St., N.Y. 



T-A^B L E TALK 



[December. 



HORSFORD'S 

Acid Phosphate, 

(MEDICINAL,) 

Prepared, by the 

RUMFORD C HEMIC A L WORKS. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

UNDER THK DIRECTION OF 

Professor E. N. Hoksford, 

Late Rvmford ProfesRor at Harvard Ujiiver&iti/, 
Cambridge^ Mass. 



The value of preparations of acid pUosphates 
as therapeutic agents is in keeping with well- 
known chemical principles. 

So far as experience goes, Horsford's Acid 
Phosphate seems to act as if it were nutriment 
to the cerebral and nervous systems, restoring 
to their normal action secretory organs that 
have been deranged, giving vigor where there 
has been debility, and renewed strength where 
there has been exhaustion. 

It has been found especially servieeahle in dys- 
pepsia and disorders incident titer eto : in uri- 
nary difficvltics, proceeding from paralysis of the 
bladder or sphincter, and is knotmi to he useful 
in tendencies to gratel and spcrmatorrha, in 
cerebral and spi7ial paralysis, mental exhauttion, 
wakefulness, hysteria, and other nervous affec- 
tions. 

Each fluid drachm contains : 

.032 of a grain of metallic iron, in the form 
of oxide combined as an acid phosphate. 

1.100 of uncombined, potential tribasic phos- 
phoric acid, mixed with tribasic phos- 
phoric acid combined as monobasic phos- 
phate of lime, potaesa, magnesia and 
ammonia. 

It contains no pyrophosphate, or meta-phos- 
phate of any base whatever. 

Most excellent results have attended its ad- 
ministration for the prostration and nervous 
symptoms following Himstroke. 

Physicians desiring to examine and test this 
remedy, are requested to apply by letter, or 
otherwise, to the undersigned. — 

Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co., 

General Agents, 

201 Fulton St, N.Y. 



The Original and only Genuine 

LIEBia'S 

Extract of Meat, 

18 MADE BY THK 

LIEBIG EXTSAOT OF MEAT 00,, 

And has Baron Liehig'ti Siijnafure on 

erenj Jar. 

GOLD MEDALS AT PARIS 18fi7, HAVRE 
1868, and THE GRAND DIPLOMA (superior 
to the Gold Medal), at AMSTERDAM 1869. 

Invaluable in the Sick Room, and as an Ar- 
ticle of Pood, especially for those who need 
strengthening diet. It keeps for years in any 
climate. 

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. 

J. MILHA V'S SONS, 
183 Broadway, N. Y.. 

SOLE AGENTS. 



Is Coralline Poisonous? 

The new scarlet dye called Coralline (or 
Peonine) is accused of very poisonous quali- 
ties, and several persons both in England and 
the United States, assert that they have ex- 
perienced serious and even dangerous con- 
sequences from wearing socks colored in stripes 
with this dye. 

In April last, two members of the Paris 
Academy of Medicine, reported several cases 
of poisoning with this same dye, and fatal re- 
sults fiom experiments with it upon animals. 
More recently other scientific observers in 
France, including M. Chevreul, have stated to 
the Academy of Science that Coralline is not at 
all poisonous, and that worKmcn at the 
Gobelins Tapestry Works suffer no ill effects 
from its application to their skin. 

These gentlemen may all be right and yet 
wrong. The common "poison ivy" (Rhus) 
causes with some persons inflammatory erup- 
tions and painful swelling, if they but approach 
it closely, while most people can handle it 
with impunity. Again one who is entirely 
uninfluenced by contact with ivy at one time 
may suffer greatly from it at another season. 
Cases are not rare of these personal idiosjTicra- 
cies, both of susceptibility and insensibility to 
injuiy from various substances not classed a 
poisons. A most remarkable instance of this 
kind is detailed under the head of Amulet 
Poisoning in another part of this paper. 



Just So! 

The lovers of Horse-radish are informed 
that they can procure their favorite condiment 
at Pougera's Pharmacy, 30 North William 
Street, N. Y. , in the following tempting form, — 
"Fougera's lodo-Ferrophosphated Elixir of 
Horse-Radish," which he declares to be "a 
Diuretic, Tonic, Stimulant, Emmena gogue 
and powerful Regenerator of the blood." 



— The sprouts of the potato contain an alka- 
loid termed by chemists solaninc, which is vei-y 
poisonous if taken into the system. This does 
not exist in the tubers, unless they are exposed 
to the light and air, which sometimes occurs 
fi'om the accidental removal of the earth in 
cultivation. A potato that shows a blackish- 
green tint on one side should never be cooked 
for the table or fed to stock. — Druggist 
(^London. ) 



WoNDEKS OF Trade. — Twenty car-loads of 
butter recently went through Cheyenne for 
California, the contract for which was made 
over the Atlantic Cable, by a firm in Liverpool 
with a firm in Chicago, at twenty-seven cents 
per pound. The butter is consigned to 
English houses in Hong Kong, Pekin and 
Canton. — American Qrocer. 

An Eye to Business. 

Newly married couples In Chicago are terri- 
bl}' bored just now, by the flood of cards and 
circulars which immediately after the cere- 
mony flow in upon them through the mails, 
from lawyers, announcing terms and instruc- 
tions how to procure a divorce. 



RtTMFORD 

Chemical Works, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I., 
GEO. F. WILSON, Treasurer, 

.NtANUFACTrEKRS OF 

Aqua Fortis, 

Nitric Acid, 

Muriatic Acid, 

Muriate and Oxy-Muriate of Tia, 

Tin Crystals, 

Blueing, 

Horsford's Patent Anti-Chloride ot 
Lime, 

Wilson's Anti-Bleach Crystals, 

Eoseoline, 

Luteoline, 

Lazuli lie, 

Horsford's Patent Cream of Tartar, 

Eumford Yeast Powdsrs, 

Horsford's Self-Kaising Bread Prepa- 
ration, 

Wilson's Ammoniated Super- Phosphate 
of Lime, 

Wilson's Patent Tobacco Grower. 

Bi-Sulphite of Lime, &c., &c. 



B O JVE CO AL 

'IF STF*;itlOR 'JI'ALITV 

FOR SU6AE EEFINEES. 



— "Lenny, you're a pig," said a farmer to 
his little five-year-old boy. " Now, do you 
know what a pig is, Lenny?" "Yes, sir; a 
pig's a hog's little boy." 



The above articles, and all other productions 
of the Rumford. Chemical Works, are offered 
to the Trade through their duly authorized 

Ocueral Agents, 

WILSON, LOCKWOOD, EVERETT & CO., 

•JOl Vulton SI., A'eir York Citi/. 

GEO. F. WILSON, Providence, R. I. 
RADCLIFFE B. LOCKWOOD, St. Louis. Mo. 
CHAS. J. EVERETT, New York City. 
GEO. W. POTTER, Providence, R. I. 

HUDSON RIVER 

Hubber Company, 

WANEROOMS. 
14 PARK PLACE, N. Y., 

MANTFAOTUEEES OF 

Car Springs, Hose Belting and 

Steam Packing. 

ALL GOODS WARRANTED. 



ALL THE WORKS 

OF THE 

GREATEST LIVING POET 

For SI. '2 5. 

TENNYSON'S POEMS, 

CS-HiOBB BZDITIOlSr, COI-IFI>ETB. 

Sent by Mail, Post-paid, on Receipt of Price, by 

J. E. TILTON tl CO., 

Publishers, 

201 Fulton St., New York. 



J. W. PRATT, Printer, 75 Fulton St., N. Y. 



TABLE TALK. 

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mankind, and having a reasonable basis 
of fact; in short, if they have .wmeMiw^ 
to .my which will certainly interest, in- 
struct or amuse a larger circle than they 
can otherwise reach, we shall be happy 
to hear from them. But don't send us 
vapid drivelings of immature minds, 
nor write ponderous Jolinsonian essays 
upon nothing. We can do all that 
stupid, heavy business ourselves ; it is 
in " our department." 

Our paper will reach some persons 
whose minds are stored with knowledge 
not accessible to all, who have profited 
by exjieriences unusual and varied. 
Such owe a debt to their fellow-men. 
And there may be in some obsure corner 
of our land one upon whose soul the 
Creator has set the gracious seal of poe/. 
We almost fear to name the sacred word, 
remembering the fearful and intermin- 
able deeds done in the mime of poetry, 
aided and' abetted by the press. Remem- 
ber, good reader— ^/V«'r reader — that all 
who love or appreciate even genuine 
poetry are not themselves poets, and 
that thousands have poetical imagiiui- 
ations and visions who will never be 
able to translate their feelings into ap- 
propriate and acceptable language. 
With these words of ]iremonition. we 
invite the poet's aid. 

Honest criticism anil discussion of 
anything treated in our columns, and 
communications upon any of the social 
or scientific problems of the day, how- 
ever plain and practical, will always 
be in order. Whatever interests or af- 
fects the welfare of the household is a 
worthy and important subject of treat- 
ment. Wives and mothers have duties 
as well as ri(jh1>i in this direction, and 
should more frequently record their ex- 
perience for the benefit of others. 

Clothe your ideas in the choicest 
language you can command, and don't 
depend upon the editor for corrections- 
Finally, rfo7/ci?/;- 5e.«/, and stop when you 
are done! 



Our Land Titles in Danger! 

The greater portion of the entire 
property of this country is represented 
by titles to tnnil or " real estate," and it 
is generally conceded that such property 
constitutes the very safest form of in- 
vestment. This popular opinion is in 
the main well grounded, but yet there 
exists an element of insecurity in the 
laws and customs relating to the regis- 
tration of deeds and mortgages, which, 
although rarely recognized, must sooner 
or later affect pecuniary interests of im- 
mense extent. 

The dangers which thus menace all 
land titles may be readily pointed out ; 
and it is worth the while of every 
reader who has an interest, direct or 
remote, in real estate, to carefully and 
thoughtfully follow our Ijrief sketch of 
these defects of the laws, and our ]n-o- 
posed remedy. 

Let us 'consider for a moment the 
customary proceedings in a single pur- 
chase of a piece of land, which may 
perhaps be for a homestead for the 
purchaser. 

The terms having been agreed upon, 
" the title is searched,'" indirectly by the 
purchaser's lawyer or agent. To do this 
it is necessary to consult carefully the 
written Eecords of the County, contain- 
ing copies of all deeds, mortgages, re- 
leases, etc., relating to lands in that 
county. If all the links in the chain 
of transfer are found complete upon the 
Kecord, and no mortgages or other 
liens are found upon the Record un- 
satisfied (or in force), the title is pro- 
nounced good, and the purchaser is 
instructed by his attorney that he may 
close the negotiation with safety, and 
accept a deed or transfer of title of the 
laud. The purchaser now receives his 
deed, duly signed, with the correctness 
of the signature attested by a commis- 
sioner of deeds, or other qualified offi- 
cial. To further comply with the law, 
and to protect his newly acquired title, 
the jnirchaser must record the deed re- 
ceived, as a public notice to the world, 
or to all persons interested, that he 
has become the owner. Accordingly, 
the deed is sent to the Recorder or 



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[January 



County Clerk for such entry, who notes 
on the document the day and hour of 
its reception ; copies it in its turn upon 
his Record, and returns it to the owner, 
who, receiving it, glances at the Clerk's 
endorsement, congratulates himself up- 
on the safe termination of the aflair, and 
not unfrequently tosses the document 
into a drawer, desk, or other receptacle 
of unimportant papers, which will prob- 
ably never be wanted again. If he gave 
the former owner a bond and mortgage 
for a part of the purchase money, the 
mortgage is in the same way deposited 
with the Clerk for record, and by him 
returned to the seller of the land. 

We will now mention some of the 
dangers which beset the new owner of 
this land, assuring our readers that 
they are not merely imaginary. Assum- 
ing that the seller's title was perfectly 
good, and that the deed was safely re- 
turned to its present owner — 

First, The Recorder or Registrar may 
have accidentally, by himself or by his 
clerk, incorrectly coined the deed upon 
the Record, and the error is more likely 
to occur in the description of the boun- 
daries and contents of the estate than 
in the more common and conventional 
parts of the conveyance. The owner 
or his attorney rarely or never compares 
the entry with the original document. 

Secondly, Tlie Recorder may carelessly 
put his certificate of entry on the docu- 
ment in advance, and return \i ivitliout 
a copy Imniny l)cen iiinde; or he may do 
this intentionally, and for reward. 

Thirdly, The Record may accidentally 
be destroyed by fire, or it may be muti- 
lated or stolen by interested parties. 

Fourthly, Supposing the property 
to be nearly or quite clear from mort- 
gages or other liens, a fraudulent mort- 
gage may be drawn by evil disposed 
persons, the name of the real owner of 
the property forged, and the certificate 
(forged or genuine) of a commissioner 
or notary obtained, attesting the signa- 
ture : this mortgage may be used to 
raise money upon, and, of course, will be 
recorded. It will then affect the owners 
interest in tlie estate, and any attempt 
to sell his property, just as much as if 
it was genuine ; and it must Ije i^roved 
fraudulent before the owner's title can 
be cleared. 

Fifthly, a fictitious deed may be simi- 
larly prepared and recorded, and the 
legal title on the Record be actually 
vested in another person. If the new 
purchaser has bought the property (un- 
der the forged deed) in good faith, and 
will produce the fraudulent document, 
the rightful owner may succeed in re- 
covering his title at the cost of expen- 



sive legal proceedings. If, however, the 
buyer is in collusion with the seller, and 
the deed, after record, is destroyed, what 
then is the remedy ? It is very difficult 
to pi'ove a negative, and exceedingly 
hard to prove a forgei-y without the 
possession of the original fraudulent 
document. 

Some persons will say that there are 
risks in all investments and business 
transactions, and that those just men- 
tioned are unavoidable. But experience 
has taught us that the above risks are 
of an unusual kind and degree, and 
that they can and should be greatly 
lessened, if not entirely prevented. Other 
persons will think our fears are of the 
imagination, and greatly exaggerated. 
We were told so by lawyers, when, seve- 
ral years ago, we suggested all the proba- 
bilities above mentioned ; and yet, within 
five years, we have known the particulars 
of a dozen cases of frauds in land titles 
and conveyances, some of these evincing 
an ingenuity far exceeding anything 
here anticipated. 

In one case, a lady owning improved 
real estate, failed to receive her rent for 
a year, and visiting her property, found 
her ownership disputed by the tenant. 
Reference to the record showed that the 
property had been mortgaged to one 
party and sold to another, and she only 
recovered her own by tedious and costly 
litigation and a compromise-payment to 
the tenant. The question is naturally 
asked, how the certificate of the attesting 
notary or commissioner is obtained ? We 
should ask rather, what difficulty is there 
in procuring it ? One-half of the pei'- 
sons execixting conveyances are unknown 
to the attesting commissioner of deeds. 
We have fi-equently employed strangers 
in that capacity, without the formality 
of an introduction, and we have had our 
own signature certified in a very consi- 
derable transfer of U. S. registered bonds, 
by a notary who had no evidence of our 
identity whatever. If any one doubts 
that under existing laws, his titles to real 
estate may readily be endangered, when- 
ever a sufficient motive is presented to 
designing scoundrels, we will furnish the 
skeptic with some facts and rulings of 
even U. S. Courts which will be more 
eloquent and suggestive than any argu- 
ments of ours. 

We will but allude to the well-known 
insecurity of the buildings containing 
the Records, the danger from fire or 
thieves, and the ample opportunity af- 
forded for mutilating or removing por- 
tions of a Record-book. A personal ex- 
amination by a committee of land-owners 
of each county of the offices and safes of 
the Register would alone create a revolu- 



tion in the manner of preserving these 
important records. 

Our proposed remedy is two fold: 

First — Religiously preserve all deeds, 
mortgages, releases, etc., just as carefully 
as if they were not recorded. 

Secondly — Amend the registry laws as 
follows: compel the execution of all 
documents relating to real estate transfers 
or liens, in duplicate ; one copy of which 
shall be retained by the rightful holders, 
and the other, having the same original 
signatures, including those of witnesses 
and commissioner of deeds, shall l)c de- 
posited with the Recorder or Register 
who, after copying it as usual, shall file 
and preserve it in a fire-proof and thief- 
proof biiilding, and who shall allow no 
access to these oriyinalsviiihowixm order 
of court. 

The additional expense of such pre- 
servation of records might be large, but 
it eould not be greater than the possible 
loss to one single land-owner by fraud, 
under the present wretched and utterly 
inefficient method. 



One of Beecher's Best Sermons. 

Henry Ward Beecher was lately ar- 
raigned before Plymouth Church by 
some of the dissentiny members, for his 
action in the Richardson marriage. Mr. 
Beecher made one of his characteristic 
addresses to the meeting, in which he 
gave a fi'ank, manly explanation of his 
motives and feelings, and concluded 
with the following pithy remark, which 
we heartily commend to the great and 
astute "I told you so,"' family. 

" Finally," said Mr. Beecher, " I can 
say with the honest Dutchman, that if 
my foresight was as good as my Jiind- 
siyht T shoiild have done verv differ- 
ently !" 

Inns of Court. 

In olden times a nobleman's or coun- 
try-gentleman's town-house or lodging- 
place, during the season of attendance 
at court, was called an Inn. In French 
the word Hotel still signifies the same 
thing — a palace or nobleman's residence. 
Both words are now used in English to 
mean a quite difi"erent thing. The Inns 
of Court in London are law colleges, 
where students collect for instruction. 
Anciently the students were all noble- 
men's sons, and the place of their city 
abode was naturally called an Inn. There 
are four 2)rincipal Inns of Court, Lin- 
coln's Inn, Gray's Inn, the Middle Tem- 
ple, and the Inner Temple. The first 
two were formerly the palaces of the 
Earls of Lincoln and Gray. The other 
two were the commandery of the Knights 
Templar, which order was suppressed 



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for its scandalous iniquities early in the 
fourteenth century. 



American Enterprise. 

The large share of profits arising from 
the business of fire insurance carried out 
of the country by foreign companies, 
has naturally given rise to much grum- 
bling and bitter complaints on the part 
of American Underwriters. At their 
instance, the Legislatures of several 
States have enacted laws taxing heavily 
the receipts from such sources, of all 
foreign corporations, and requiring 
special deposits in the State of a portion 
of the foreign capital so employed. 

AVliile the hostility of our American 
companies to foreign interference with 
the biisiness of fire insurance in the 
United States has thus found vent, the 
Home Insurmire Company, of New York, 
has " carried the war into Africa." They 
have established a branch in Europe 
for general European business, Avith its 
headquarters in the City of Hamlnirg. 
This is, in our opinion, the wisest and 
most honoral)le method of meeting 
the enemy. Legislative discrimination 
against foreign capital — except for se- 
curing enforcement of oliligations — and 
whining complaints, are alike unworthy 
of a generous, manly, commercial spirit. 
Let all compete on a common field, and 
"may the l)est man win!" 



Position in Sleep. 

There are many theories about this- 
matter, most of them founded on fanci- 
ful ideas of fact. The best test is in 
one's own experience, and it is quite 
likely that there are individual peculiari- 
ties in this matter as well as in eating, so 
that no one rule applies to all. Some 
have dreams, unrest, and perhaps night- 
mare, if they lie on their backs. Others 
find it a most comfortable position. 
Very likely the condition of the stomach 
at the time, whether it is full of undi- 
gested food which weighs on important 
arteries, nerves, and vital organs, or 
whether it is empty, may make consid- 
erable difference in the comfort of this 
position. So wonderfully are we made 
that no position, naturally taken in 
sleep, can have any very serious effect on 
the health. If we should say anything 
in favor of one position over another, it 
would \w that, as in the inflation of the 
lungs the chest is elevated by certain 
muscles ; these muscles have to lift 
against gravity when a person lies on 
the back, and therefore a side position 
should seem to be more favorable as re- 
lieving them from needless work, up- 



hill. In general, let the muscles of the 
l)ody be relaxed, let the knees be slightly 
drawn up. let the fingers be extended or 
hang without tension, let the head be 
not bent over, that the blood-vessels 
may have full play ; and if you change 
position two or three times in the night, 
the 1)ody will be more easily rested by 
morning. Shall you sleep with head to 
the north and feet south ? We know of 
no law under heaven that shall prevent 
you keeping this polarity if you wish, 
and if there is any virtue in it, you are 
at least on the safe side, provided you 
know toward which pole your head 
ought to point. 

Remember Stanton. 

Before this paper is in type the death 
of Edwin M. Stanton will have been dis- 
cussed by every friend and enemy of his 
in the land, and any reflections of ours 
will have long been anticipated. We 
therefore simply record the unexpected 
event, which took place on the 24th of 
December, and add our testimony to his 
character as an incorruptible patriot and 
to the incalculable services rendered by 
him to his country in her darkest hour. 
However individuals may complain of 
alleged injustice at his hands, to the na- 
tion he was trve. With the disburse- 
ments of hundreds of millions of money 
passing through his hands, and unequal- 
ed opportunities for advancing his pri- 
vate interests, Edwin M. Stanton retired 
from his official position a comparatively 
poor man. When monuments are erected 
to Peabodys andVanderbilts, what should 
be done for the memory of our late Se- 
cretary of War ? 



Professor Lunsford Yandell, jr., M.D., 
in a late address before the University 
of Louisville, Kentucky, said: — 

"There is little doubt in my mind 
" that the had biscuits of America are 
" in a great measure to blame for the 
" numberless homicides which render 
" our country a by-word among nations. 
" Bad lireud breeds battle, murder and 
" sudden death." 

True as Gospel! every word of it. 
Banish heavy, sour bread and saleratus 
biscuit from our country, and we should 
be the best natured people on the face 
of the earth. Bad bread and "bad 
blood" are synonymous. We have 
known a Calvinist clergyman who saw 
nothing but endless and fiery torments 
in prospect for all his congregation, to 
be so changed in his views, feelings and 
temper by using Horsfoid's Bread Pre- 
piaration, that his countenance and ser- 
mons were fairly illumined by broad 



views of Christian charity and tolera- 
tion. 



Lead Poisoning— Prof. Johnson. 

Instances of lead-poisoning having 
been frequently attributed to the use 
of water transmitted through lead 
pipes, a substitute for that dangerous 
metal has long been sought. Both 
block-tin and tin-lined pipes have been 
introduced, and both have been widely 
recommended by chemists. Controversy 
upon the relative merits of the two last 
named pipes naturally followed; audit 
was asserted by some experts that, theo- 
reticaUy, in the case of the tin-lined 
pipe, galvanic action would take place 
at the soldered joints, and possibly at 
other parts of the inner surface of the 
pipe. Mr. Donald G. Mitchell, of the 
Hearth and Home, having strongly re- 
commended the tin-lined pipe to his 
readers, and having his faith somewhat 
shaken by adverse statements on good 
chemical avithority, in September last 
referred this matter of the action of 
potable waters on different metals to 
Professor S. W. Johnson, of Yale Col- 
lege, requesting his views in settlement 
of the questions involved. Professor 
.Johnson's response was duly received 
and published in Hearth and Home, but 
believing from the inquiries of many 
professional friends that it failed to re- 
ceive the publicity due to so remark- 
able a document, we give the following 
synopsis of his report. 

Prof. Johnson says that the use of 
lead pipes is often unattended by any 
apparent CAal consequences, and again 
is often productive of injury to health. 
That the same is trtie of pipes rej)uted 
to be made of the best commercial block- 
tin. That fin-lined pipes have been 
("as he hears") in use for years, with 
the best results, while, on the other 
hand, this pipe sometimes suffers rapid 
corrosion ; and he mentions a case in 
New Haven (upon information,) where 
the tin-lining was completely dissolved 
away by the water in the space of a year. 
Prof. Johnson says nothing of the source 
or quality of the water concerned in 
any of the foregoing cases. He men- 
tions an instance within his personal 
knowledge, of lead-poisoniiig, in which 
the well-water used completely destroyed 
lead pipes, and perforated a block-tin 
pipe. L^pon two careful analyses of this 
well-water by Prof. Johnson, he failed 
to discover any lead in solution. Prof. 
Johnson afterwards occupying the jire- 
mises, had the well cleaned, and substi- 
tuted galvanized zinc-coated iron pipe. 
The water dissolved the zinc, (which 
appeared as a white scum in the water 



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first drawn in the morning,) and finally 
attacked the iron. Again, In- .■^ays that 
•• in all cases of lead corrosion coming 
under his observation, the ad ion has 
not been simply a general solvnit lircct 
extending over the whole surface of tlie 
metal, l)Ut the pipe has been pitted or 
perforated in spots. These pits are 
found in vertical as well as in horiznutal 
pipes, and appear as if induced either 
by something accidental originally im- 
bedded in the lead or deposited nptm it 
from the water. It is not uncommon to 
see a pipe perforated at one short section 
of its course, and elsewhere remaining 
sound. May we not, therefore, conchide 
that local and accidental causes some- 
times impair or destroy metallic jiipes in 
such a way as to bring them into un- 
merited disrepnte ?" The Professor's 
defence of metallic pipes in the last sen- 
tence is weak. Our conclusion from the 
facts just stated is, that the lead and tin 
used in the manufacture of pijjes is so im- 
pure aiid wanting in homogeneousness, 
that the water finds abundant material to 
work upon, and galvanic action must 
ensue. 

As to the very important query, 
whether galvanic action induces corro- 
sion at the joint.'^ of tin-lined pipes, Prof. 
Johnson says, "'Accoi'ding to analogy 
and theory," he answers the (question 
in the affirmative, but as to the fact. 
•• his information is insufticient to justify 
a verdict." ■' It is conceded." he says 
further, "that tin is less easily acted 
on than lead, and that the products are 
less poisonous. I am not certai// that 
this is always true; but if generally 
true, it appears that tin -lined pipes 
would be very serviceable, could they be 
joined — not in the usual way, which is 
liable to leave both metals exposed to 
the water, but by flanging the pipes and 
connecting them witli screw-collars, so 
that the tin lining should be unbroken 
throughout." Prof. Johnson alludes to 
the absence of any other materials than 
tin or lead suitable for small water-pipes. 
He advises that water which has stood 
long in metallic pii^es should nerer be 
used for drinking or cooking; speaks of 
the protective infltience of iron upon 
lead or tin pipes, (when in contact). 
which, he says, is of the same nature as 
the preservative effect of lead upon tin 
alone, and concludes as follows: 

" In consideration of the serious con- 
sequences which so often follow the 
employment of lead for water-service, 
we may be tempted to declaim violently 
against its further toleration; but tin- 
man life is, at tlte best, a series of nur- 
row escapes, and we must seek, by intel- 
ligence and care, to mitigate and neu- 



'I' A B L E TALK. 

tralize the evils Avhich can not be wholly 
overcome excejit at a cost greater than 
is involved in rendering them harmless 
by precaution." 

When a man of Professor Johu.son's 
scientific attainments surrenders thus 
ignobly in a struggle with evils conse- 
quent upon insufficient knowledge, the 
faith of ignorant men in the power of 
science may ^\-ell be shaken. We search 
this liepdi-t in vain for evidence of the 
"intelligence and care" which usually 
chara<'ti'rize Professor Johnson's writ- 
ings on scientific subjects; and we think 
he owes to his own reputation a com- 
plete investigation of lliis great sanitary 
problem, wliich shall lie wortliv of him- 
self. 



[January, 



We take pleasure in presenting an- 
other of the many ruliintary commen- 
dations of Professor Horsford's Bread 
Preparation, which are constantly being 
given by conscientious and scientific 
jirofessional men. The following edi- 
torial is extracted from The Medical 
Gazette (N. Y.) of January 1, 1870, 
which paper, by the way, is one of the 
very best exponents of modei'n, liberal, 
medical science : 

Horsford's Bread Preparation. 

So many utterly worthless dietary prepara- 
tions are thrown upon the market and lavishly 
vaunted in high-sounding advertisements, that 
good and bad are liable to be confounded in a i 
common distrust, founded on repeated disap- 
pointment. It may, therefore, be well to in- 
form our readers that the baking powders pre- 
pared according to the formula of Professor 
Horsford, are really a valvahle additio-n to our 
(iliineutary renoanrs. In bread made with 
these powders, the phosphatic elements in 
which ordinary flour is deficient, are restored, 
and furnish, so to speak, a therapeutic food in 
some morbid conditions. Dentists especially, 
may find this a convenient mode of supplying 
phosphatic material in the rapid caries which 
sometimes affects children's teeth. 



— Isn't it aljout time tliat those 
"Gates Ajar" were close^l i-* Tlie title 
of this book and the reviews of it have 
stared us in the faco until the namo 
haunts ns like one of the stupid street- 
songs, which everybody whistles and 
hums with equal perseverance and dis- 
gust. Bo. good i)eople. shut u\) — the 
aforesaid " Gates ;" lock them and throw 
away the key I 

— The German Chemist, Landsberg, says 
that artificial light contains 90 per cent, of cal- 
orific rays, while sunlight contains only 50 
per cent. To the number of these rays he 
attributes the disagreeable sensations produced 
upon the eye by aitifictal light. By passing it 
through alum or mica, the calorific rays are 
interrupted, and the light rendered more agree- 
able and less injurious. — London Druggist. 



The American Agriculturist. 

Ten years or more ago, when we lived 
in the great city, and rarely got sight of 
a sunset or a glimpse of sky larger than 
a blanket, we wa-re often consciotts of 
certain thrills of sympathy with far-off" 
rural scenes, and of longings for the 
sweet-scented meadows, shadowy woods 
and blue mountain peaks which we knew 
were waiting to greet us with a lover's 
welcome. Some lingering drop of vaga- 
bond blood (of bow-and-arrow origin), 
would start a ferment in our veins which 
turned us for the time against brick 
walls, civilization and our fellow-man. 
If it was in "the leafy summer-time," as 
we trudged down-town to our daily work, 
it was a solace to pass through one of the 
public sqtiares or parks, where a mo- 
mentary view of the tender grass-tips 
and rustling leaves refreshed us, and 
calmed our wayward imjiulse to flee from 
the abodes of men. 

At such times our favorite books lost 
all their charms, and reading became 
hateful to us. But once a month (and 
as quickly as it was issued), we used to 
seize upon the Agriculturist, and atevery 
seasonable moment we devoured its sug- 
gestive contents. It was a feast to us. 
Farms and gardens rose before our de- 
lighted vision as fair and beautiful as 
heart could wish. Its familiar talk of 
the detail of rural affairs could only be 
written by those whose daily life was 
passed amid such scenes. Nothing of 
the ■■• sentimental shepherd " order in- 
sulted our intelligence or offended our 
taste in the Ai/riculturist, but the real 
poetry of nature was there in abundance. 
We felt that the hand which penned the 
lines we read also held the plow and the 
jn-uniiig-knife ; the smell of the fresh 
earth, the .scent of the apple-blossom and 
the clover were there. And so the 
At/riculturisthec-dme to us a connecting 
link between our monotonous city life 
and the world of nature as revealed by 
Herrick, Bloomfield or quaint old Gil- 
bert White. 

If our favorite paper was desirable 
when we lived in New York, it became 
a " necessary of life" when we moved 
into the country. We proved its teach- 
ings by our practice, and found country 
neighbors (from the city like ourselves,) 
who successfully carried on their farms 
solely by the monthly calendar of direc- 
tions published in the At/riculturist. 

Jiulging by the past, we hardly dare to 
predict its future ; but we nniy say with 
befitting modesty, that we already look 
upon the American AyricuUnrist as a 
daugerotis rival ; in short, as a (jreat biy 
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13 



The Windy Night. 

Alow and aloof, 

Over the roof, 
How the midnight tempests howl I 
With a dreary voice, like the dismal tune 
Of wolves that bay at the desert moon : — 

Or whistle and shriek 

Through limbs that creak, 

"Tu-who! tu-whil I" 

They cry and flit, 
" Tu-whlt ! — tu-who !" like the solemn owl I 

Alow and aloof. 

Over the roof. 
Sweep the moaning ^^inds amain, 

And wildly dash 

The elm and ash. 
Clattering on the window sash ! 

With a clatter and patter. 

Like hail and rain. 

That well nigh shatlei- 

The dusky pane ! 

Alow and aloof. 

Over the roof. 
How the tempests swell and roar ! 

Though no foot is a-stir. 

Though the cat and the cur 
Lie dozing the kitchen fire before ; 

There are feet of air 

On every stair I 

Through every hall — 

Through each gusty door. 

There's a jostle and bustle. 

With a silken rustle 
Like the meeting of guests at a festival ! 

Alow and aloof, 

Over the roof. 
How the stormy tempests swell ! 

And make the vane 

On the spire complain — 
They heave at the steeple with might and main; 

And burst and sweep 

Into the belfry, on the bell ! 
They smite it so hard, and they smite it so well. 
The sexton tosses his arms in sleep. 
And dreams he is ringing a funeral knell : 

Thomas Buchanan Read 

— From the record of ii series of 
experiments made at various times by 
Prof. Jeffries Wymaii, of Harvard Uni- 
versity, we select the following interest- 
ing and suggestive results. 

1. In thenual waters, plants belonging to the 
lower kinds of algae live in water the tem- 
perature of which, in some instances, rises as 
high as 208'^ F. (4'^ below boiling point.) 

2. Solutions of organic matter boiled for 25 
minutes, and exposed only to air which had 
passed through iron tubes heated to redness, 
became the seat of infusorial life. 

3. Similar solutions contained in ilasks her- 
metically sealed, and then immersed in boiling 
water for periods varying from a few minutes 
to four hours, also became the seat of infuso- 
rial life. The infusoria were chietly vibrios, 
bacteriums and monads. 

4. No ciliated infusoria, unless monads are 
such, appeared in the ex|)eriments referred to 
in the above conclusions. 

5. No infusoria ot any kind appeared if the 
boiling was prolonged beyond a period of five 
hours. 

G. Infusoria having the faculty of locomo- 
tion, lost this when exposed in water to a tem- 
perature of fiom 120" to 134" F. 

7. If vibrios, bacteriums and monads are 
added to a clear and limpid organic solution, 
this becomes turbid, from their nmltiplication, 
in from one to two days. If, however, they 
have been previously boiled, the solution does 
not become turbid until from one to two days 
later, and in some of the experiments not 
sooner than does the same solution to which 
no infusoria have been added. 



Mr. Andrew's New Science, Uni- 
versology. 

" We publish an extraordinary card signed by 
some of the most scientific men and ripest 
thinkers in this city, calling attention to the 
claim of Mr. Stephen Pearl Andrews to the 
discoveiy of the Unity of the Sciences, or to 
the discoverj', in other words, of the funda- 
mental science which is to make all the special 
sciences one organic whole. 

•• The gentlemen who sign this card have, it 
seems, listened to such preliminary exposition 
of his scientific ideas by Mr. Andrews as to 
satisfy them of their • importance' and 
originality' and of the ' profound research ■ 
which they imply. Some of them, indeed, we 
are aware, from personal knowledge, have gone 
much farther than what is stated in this card, 
and having laboriously perused the proofs of 
Mr. Andrews' great work, now in type, are 
greatly impressed by it. 

" Even a preliminary and conditional accep- 
tance of such a claim to a new philosophy, 
science, and scientific method by such men as 
Parke Godwin, President Barnard, of Colum- 
bia College, Prof. Martin of the LTniversity. 
Prof.Youmans, and others, places Mr. Anchews 
upon a high vanfcige ground, in coming before 
the general public. We hope that it will prove 
true, that to an American scholar is reserved 
the honor of so great an achievement as the 
demonstration of the unity of the sciences." — 
The Eceiiliifi Mull. 

Universology. 

"The undersigned having listened to Mr 
Stephen Pearl Andrews' preliminary statement 
of 'Universology,' and being impressed with 
the importance and originality of the new 
scientific claim, as well as with the profound 
research implied in it, do cordially concur in 
urging the publication of the work at the 
earliest possible date. 

'■ Parke Godwin, Isaac Lewis Peet, Principal 
of the New York Institution for the Deaf and 
Dumb ; Frederick R. Marvin, Geo. Wakeman, 
N. B. Emerson, M. D. ; Titus Munson Coan, 
M. D. ; J. West Nevins, late United State Vice- 
Consul at Genoa, Italy ; John H. Staats, "]?. B. 
Wakeman, G. W. Madox, F. A. P. Barnard, 
President of Columbia College ; Professor E. 
L. Youmans, George Opdyke, Rev. O. B. Fi-oth- 
inghani, Charles P. Daly, President of the 
American Geographical and Statistical Society; 
Rev. Benj. N. Martin, Professor New York 
University; C. Goepp, E. R. Slraznicky, Assist- 
ant Librarian Astor Libraiy ; Charles F. Tay- 
lor, M.D. " 



The popular idea that the human heart 
cannot be even touched by a foreign substance 
without endangering life is entu-ely erroneous. 
Operations have been successfully performed 
for removing an effusion of fluid within the 
pericardium, ( the membranous sac containing 
the heart,) in which the pericardium has been 
pierced, and the instrument brought in direct 
contact with the heart, so that every beat of 
that organ moved the instrument to and fro. 
No pain was experienced by the patient wlien 
the heart was thus touched. In such cases, it 
is essential to prevent the admission of air into 
the sac, and this may be done by connecting 
the end of the instrument ( a canulaj with an 
india-rubber tube, the loose end of which being 
kept under water, allows the escape of tlie dis- 
turbing fluid without danger to the patient. 

— Carbolized catgut has been substituted 
for silk and linen ligatures for tying arteries. 
Dr. Jas. Spence, President of the Royal College 
of Surgeons in Edinburg, reports that having 
tied the carotid arteiy with one of these liga- 
tures, within 24 hours the catgut became 
softened into a gelatinous jiulp by the heat and 
moisture of the surrounding tissues, and allowed 
the artery to open. Death ensued. 



Okoide is a metallic composition resembling 
gold in color, softness, malleability and other 
qualities so closely that it is difficult to dis- 
tinguish it from the precious metal. It is com- 
posed of 100 jjarts of copper; 17 parts of tin 
or zinc ; G parts of magnesia , 3-G parts ot 
sal-ammoniac ; 1-8 parts of calcined lime and 
i) parts of cream of tartar. It was invented in 
France, and is much u.sed in the manufacture 
of cheap jewelry. 



Sumner's first falling out with Mrs. Julia 
Ward Howe occurred three years ago, upon 
her invitation to meet Edwin Booth at dinner. 
The Senator replied that ' • he was too much ab- 
sorbed by the welfare of the masses to take 
any interest in individuals." To this note, put 
in her scrap-book, the lady appended this com- 
ment : " When last heard from, the Almighty 
had not yet reached this point. " Boston was 
stirred to its depths. The Senator entreated, 
the lady relented, and both text and commen- 
tary were destroyed. — N. V. Wmid. 



— •' Mamma,'' said a little boy, " is it wicked 
to say dmn'" "Certainly, ' replied mamma, 
"I hope I shall never hear you use such a 
word." "Well, mamma, is it wicked to say 
milldam, cofferdam, or Amsterdam ':■" " Why 
no, my child; those are common words and 
are perfectly proper." " Well," returned six- 
year-old, "the old cow in the barn has just 
got a turnip in her throat, and if you don't 
hurry out there, she'll cofferdam head off!" — 
N. i^. Indepeiident. 



— If a continuous solid iron rail was laid 

along a track for a distance of 160 miles, 

it would be absolutely impogxibk for any 

mechanical force whatsoever, applied at one 

end, to move the other end, or the whole 

bar, instantaneously. A certain quantity of 

time is required for the force applied at the 

end to travel from molecule to molecule of the 

metal, and the bar could not be moved until 

that force had been thus transmitted to the 

furthermost particle of the iron, which in Ibis 

case would require about one niinule and a 

quarter. 

»«»• 

— Sir Richard Jebb being called to a patient 
who fancied himself veiy ill, told him ingenu- 
ously what he thought, and declined prescrib- 
ing, thinking it unnecessary. — "Now you are 
here," said the patient, " I shall be obliged to 
you. Sir Richard, If you will tell me how I 
must live — what I may eat, aud what not ?" — 
"My directions as to that point," said Sir 
Richard, who abominated this sort of question, 
" will be few and simple : you must not eat t he 
poker, shovel, or tongs, for they are hard of 
digestion ; nor the bellows, because they are 
windy ; but anything else you please." 



— "My Brother," I sed to a coUerd purson, 
" air you aware that you've been 'maucipated '! 
Do you realize how glorious it is to be free '/ 
Tell me, my dear cullerd brother, does it not 
seem to you like some dream, or do you real- 
ize the great fact in all its lovin' and holy mag- 
nitude '!" — He sed he v.'ould take some gin. — 
Art emus Ward. 



14 



TABLE TAjLK. 



(Janttaey, 



Horsford's Bread Preparation 

A?id other arliclex of our nunnifarlurv- 
are Icept hi stock and mid to the trade 
Ini tlic foUoiriiHi finris : 

New York City. 

Acker, Merrall & Condit, 132 Chambers Street. 

Bogle & Lyles, 83 Barclay Street. 

H. W. Belcher & Co., 41 Warren Street. 

Martin Y. Bunn & Co., 335 Greenwich Street. 

Thomas P. Cooper, 182 South Street. 

E. M. Course, 324 Greenwich Street. 

Day, Hoagland & Stigcr, .''.4 Cortlandt Street. 

Earle & Co., i)7 Front Street. 

Garbutt, Griggs & Co., 168 Chambers Street. 

E. C. Hazard, 192 Chambers Street. 

E. & R. Mead, Jr., & Co., 13 Coenties Slip. 

George A. Merwin & Co., 242 Washington St. 

Moore, Jenkins & Co., 229 Front Street. 

Moore & Walcefield, 49 Broadway. 

James Olwell & Co., 181 West Street. 

Potter & Williams, 218 Front Street. 

Robert Seaman, 117 West Street. 

Sherwood & Van Name, 2.54 Greenwich St. 

H. K. Thurber & Co., 173 Chamber Street. 

Henry Welsh, 321 Washington Street. 

Gardner G. Yvelin, 206 Fulton Street. 

Miscellaneous. 

Note. — The follo^ving List is as large as we have space 
to print in this issue. 

Aladorf & Doscher, Brooklyn, N. T. 
• R. J. Owens, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Valentine & Bergen, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
R. M. Bishop & Co., Cincinnati. 

A. A. Colter & Co., Cincinnati. 
Smith & Curtis, Cleveland. 
Strong & Armstrong, Cleveland. 
Callender & Co., Buifalo, N. Y. 
Butler, Earhart & Co., Columbus, Ohio. 
Williams & Co., Chillieothe, Ohio. 
Fallis & Linton, Toledo, Ohio. 
Benson & Wood, Toledo, Ohio. 
Lippincott & Browulee, Steubenville, Ohio. 
King & Owens, Chicago, III. 

Downer & Co., Chicago, 111. 

Fleek and Sherwood, Newark, Ohio. 

Montgomery & Warner, Newark, Ohio. 

B. Trentman & Son, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
Browning & Slotin, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Sevcriu. Schimll & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 
Delano & Trippe, Troy, N. Y. 
Comstook Bros., Utica, N. Y. 

Adams, Rowdey & Ney, Utica, N. Y. 
A. Ethridge & Co., Rome, N. Y. 

C. C. Loomis & Co., T^yracuse, N. Y. 
Mathews & Brownson, Brighampton, N. Y. 
Lormore Bros. & Reid, Elmira, N. Y. 
John Y. Selover, Auburn, N. Y. 

A. A. Solomons & Co., Savannah, Ga. 

C. L. Gilbert, Savannah, Ga. 

Swarbrick & Co., New Orleans, La. 

T. H. Hinchman & Sons, Detroit, Mich. 

E. S. Bush & Co., Detroit, Mich. 

Lorenzo Baker, Schaghticoke, N. Y. 

H. A. Barton, Livonia Station, N. Y. 

Birdsall, Baker & Co., Wellsville, N. Y. 

Brantley & Pringle, Sandersville, Ga. 

A. H. Blackal!, Chicago, 111. 

J. S. Burdsal & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Benton, Myers & Canfiekl, Cleveland, Ohio. 

G. W. Brown & Co., Columbus, Ga. 

Wm. Chamberlain, Barrytown, N. Y. 

O. Chamberlain, Amenia, N. Y. 

G. W. Comstock, South Orange, N. J. 

H. B. Crosby & Son, Paterson, N. J. 

W. D. Cooper & Bro., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Wm. Caldwell, Evansville, Ind. 



The Courts. 

IMPORTANT OASES AND DECISIONS. 

Superi&r Court, Trial Term. Journeay r.i. 
Mcclmnieii' National Bank. 

This case furnishes another forcible illustra- 
tion" of the'danger of ".dependence upon the 
Becord in Real Estate transactions, and of the 
po.isi/jilitie.i mentioned in the editorial con- 
tained in this number of Table Talk, headed 
" Our Land Titles in Danyer. " A curious and 
interesting question of liability in payment of 
checks upon forged endorsements is also in- 
volved. The facts are these : 

Maiy E. Bull was the actual owner of cer- 
tain real estate on Staten Island. A woman 
representing herself as Mary E. Bull, of Hart- 
ford, Conn., called on Albert Journeay, at his 
real estate office in New York, and left a 
memorandum of this property belonging to 
Miss Bull, stating that she wislied to sell it, and 
that if it could not be sold very soon, she 
would like a loan of $1,000 secured by bond 
and mortgage upon the premises. She then 
went to New Haven, and calling upon a re- 
spectable firm of lawyers in that cit}', Messrs. 
Peck and Gardner, she presented a letter from 
Journeay, which stated that he had been ap- 
pointed her agent for the property. She then 
asked Messrs. P. and G. to act for her, and to 
procure the loan. Mr. Journeay prepared the 
papers for the loan in New York and sent 
them on to New Haven ; they were signed by 
this woman as "Mary E. Bull," aod returned 
to Jourueav, who. thereupon, forwarded his 
check for the loan of $1,000, to tlie order of 
Mary E. Bull. Through her relations with 
Peck and Gardner she easily obtained the 
money upon her endorsement as M. E. B., 
from the City Bank of New Haven. Soon 
after, the property was sold by Journeay for 
about $2,200, and the deed having been" pre- 
pared Ijy him and duly executed, and returned 
by the pretended owner, Journeay sent her a 
second check to same order, for the balance, 
$1,200, which she as readily procured the 
money for at the same bank. These two 
checks were foi-warded to the Nassau Bank for 
collection, and were paid by the Mechanics' 
National Bank of this city, where plaintiff 
kept his account. A year after, the real owner, 
Maiy E. Bull, sold the land, and upon search 
of the title by the purchaser, the fraudulent 
conveyance was discovered. The woman who 
bad so cleverly played the part, of "Mary E. 
Bull," was, of course, not to be found, and 
Jounieay brought suit against the Mechanics' 
National Bank, to recover the amount of the 
two checks paid, $2,200, on the ground that 
the endorsement of Mary E. Bull was forged. 
The Bank's defense is substantially this, that 
Journeay dealt with the person who wrote the 
endorsement, that he intended to pay tier ttie 
money, and that it being proved that the person 
recognized try Jiim as Maiy E. Bull had re- 
ceived the money, he could not require the 
Bank to rectify his own mistake in identity. 

The Judge directed a verdict for the plaintiff 
for the whole .amount claimed, subject to the 
decision of the General Term. 

(2.) 

Court of Appeals. Mar/cTiemi vs. Javdon. 

This decision finally settles an important 
question as to the rights of parties dealing in 
stocks through a broker, "on margin." In 
our judgment, it will open up an immense 
amount of litigation, unless, indeed, all claims 
under the decision are at once compromised by 
the brokers. 

Markham bought stock through his brokers, 
thejaudons, in the usual way. "on a margin." 
The stock fell in price until the margin was 
exhausted. The brokers notified Markham 
that if he did not make his margin good they 
would sell him out, but they did not specify 
time or place of sale. They sold the stock 
and brought him in debt ; aftenvards the stock 
rose in value. 

The Court decides — 

1 . That when a broker buys stock for a cus 
tomer, and agrees to pay for it and carry it on 



receiving a deposit of a margin of money or 
stock, he holds the stock so purchased as a 
pledge for the repayment of the money he ad- 
vances, and can not sell it, even if the value of 
the stock falls so as to exhaust the margin, 
without giving notice of the time and place of 
the sale. 

2. That evidence of the custom or usage of 
brokers can not be received to change these 
rights and relations of the parties to such 
transaction. 

3. That a broker who sells out his custom- 
er's stock after his margin is gone, but without 
giving him notice of the time and place of the 
sale, IS liable to the customer for the Iiitjliest 
J) rice of the sloe/,: dawn to tlie time <f the trial, 
because the customer owns the stock, and the 
act of the broker is a wrongful commission. 



THE MAN WHO SMOKES IN THE 
STREET. 
I knew by the smoke that so lazily curled 
From his lips twas a loafer I happened to 
meet. 
And I said, " if a nuisance there be in the world, 
Tis smoking cigars in a frequented street. " 
Twas night, and the ladies were glidingaround. 
And in manj' an eye shone the glittering tear. 
But the loafer puffed on,andI hcardnotasound. 
Save the short, hacking cough of each smoke- 
smitten dear. 



Among the early visitors to California were 
a youngEnglish college graduate and his father, 
traveling for pleasure. While sojourning at 
San Francisco, the sou joined a hunting party 
bound for the mountains. When they had 
been gone several weeks, the J'oung English- 
man became accidentally separated from his 
companions, and after a long search they found 
the lifeless body of the poor fellow, mutilated 
by the small wolves of that country, known as 
Coyotes. The leader of the band, a stalwart, 
khid-hearted old hunter, albeit a man of few 
words, felt it incumbent upon him to notify 
the bereaved parent of the sad event, and ac- 
cordingly dispatched to him the following la- 
conic epistle : 

"Dear Sir, 
The Kyotes hev eat your son's head off." 



Chinese English. 

The oft quoted lines — 

" l\Iy iinriie is Noival ; rm the (IrHmpian Hills 

" M*> father fed (iict/ecds) his tlock, — a frugal ewaiu !" 

is thus rendered by a Chinaman of liberal edu- 
education : 

" My name Ilong Norval. Topside Grampian Hills 

'' Fader chow-chow lie sheep. Berry small-liearted man!" 

It would be a relief to hear this new version 
substituted for the old, in our schools, 
take notice ! 



Boys, 



" The wife's inability to make good bread is 
a ground of divorce among the Ai'abs. " — Neio 
Tort: Sun. 

Suppose this Arabian law should be grafted 
on our code. Horrible suggestion ! Ladies 1 
you who have wayward or discontented hus- 
bands, be forewarned and forearmed ! Spike 
the enemy's guns while he is yet asleep. Pro- 
cure Horsford s Bread Preparation :ind use it ; 
then obseiwc the change 1 See the frown and 
the crisp tender roll vanish together; re- 
strain your joy as the disappearing loaf is fol- 
lowed by a look of beaming gratitude, until 
conquered by the savory temptations of j your 
tabic, your husband exclaims with the Arab, 
"Great is Allah! and Horsford is his pro- 
phet !" 

Prudent wives who already use the Bread 
Preparation, need not read this. Their hus- 
bands need no further propitiation ; having 
loving wives and good bread, they are happy. 



1870.] 



TABLE TALK. 



16 



. Horsford's Bread Preparation. 

Wlutt is it for ? 

It is for " Haisi/iff" Bread, Btilln^ Bi.fci/if, 
Waffles, Cakes, Dumplings, etc., etc., and takes 
the place of Yeast, Soda or Salasratus, Cream 
of Tartar, sour Milk or any other form of 
leaven. 

How does it differ from other forms of 
leaven or other " B;ikiug Powders ?" 

Essentially in this : that all other " raising " 
or leavening agents supply in themselves 
nothing which is nutritious or required by the 
human system ; Horsford's Bread Preparation 
does contain the elements of nutrition in such 
" proportions and form as renders them immedi- 
ately assimilable. 

Whi/ slwuld we use it? 

Jiecaifse it is manufactured only by the 
well-known Rumford Chemical Works of 
Providence, R. I., under t!ie personal super- 
vision of Professor E. N. Horsford, of Har- 
vard University, and the purity of the in- 
gredients can therefore be relied upon. 

Jicoi iifte the directions for its use are simple 
and easily understood. The proportions of 
Acid and Soda are not left to careless or igno- 
rant cooks. 

Because Bread, Biscuit — any form of far- 
inaceous food — made with this Preparation, 
may be eaten Hot as well as cold by Iiwalids 
and Dyspeptics. 

Beeti II tie the nutritive value of flour is in- 
creased by the use of Prof. Horsford's inven- 
tion ten per cent. (See letter from Baron 
Liebig to Prof. Horsford.) 

Bei^'iiine but a few moments time are re- 
quired to prepare any form of Bread for baking. 
The result is certain, and the bread always 
good. Climate, weather, temperature do not 
affect the result 

Because sweet and delicious Hot Biscuit, 
Rolls, &c., are made by the use of Horsford's 
Preparation, -mthfour, water, and salt only, — 
neither milk, butter, nor other shortening 
being necessary. 

Berfiii.se a supplies to the human system 
the Phosphates which exist in the whole grain, 
but which are removed with the bran in the 
manuf actm-e of fine flour. 

Beemise Horsford's Bread Preparation is 
the only "Baking Powder" which is used, ap- 
proeed, and publicly recommended by scientific 
men. Its use is almost universal among pfiy- 
sicians. 

Among those who use and have given Hors- 
ford's Bread: Preparaziori their unqualified ap- 
proval, we are at liberty to mention : 

The Late Dr. VALENTINE MOTT, New York, 

Dr. VVILLARD PARKER « 

The Late Dr. HORACE GREEN. . . . 

Dr. WM. H. DWINELLE >. 

Dr. FORDYCE BARKER .. 

Dr. JOHN H. GRISCOM » 

Dr. AUGUST JACOBI .. 

Prof. CHAS, .\. JOY, Columbia Col. . . 

Prof. C.F.CHANDLER.Columbia Col. ii 

Dr. JOHN TORREY, Columbia Col. '> 

Prof. R. OGDEN DOREMUS ii 

Dr. WM. A. HAMMOND, Prof, of 
Diseases of the Mind and Nervous 
System, and of Clinical Medicine in 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
and late Surgeon General, U. S. Army w 

MASON C. WELD, (Chemist), Asso- 
ciate Editor American AgTiculturist,.. " 

S. H, M'ALES, Editor Scientific Ameri- 
can, » 

J. B. LYMAN. Agricultural Editor N. Y. 
Tribune, and Associate Editor "Hearth 
and Home," » 

0R.\NGE JUDD, Proprietor and Edi- 
tor American Agriculturist, ') 

D, D. T. MOORE, Proprietor and Edi- 
tor Moore's Rural New Yorker w 

Rev.CRAMMOND KENNEDY Asso- 
ciate Editor " Christian Union,' » 

Dr. J. R. NICHOLS Best., Mass. 

Dk.C.T. JACKSON, Mass. State Chem. , '< 

Prof. J. C. BOOTH, of U. S. Mint PhTla., Penn. 

Prof. SAMUEL H. DICKSON, Jeffer- 
son Medical College » 

Prof. C. S. GAUNT, M.D., .1 

Prof. SAMUEL JACKSON, M.D.,Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania >} 

Dr. A. P. WYLIE Chester, S. C. 

Dr. THOMAS S. JONES _.. Jackson, La. 

Dr. A. J. COMFORT .Tt. Ripley, Minn. 

Horsford's Bread Prepa/ration is put up in 
packages sufiicient for 25 pounds of flour. 

RETAIL PRICE (with Tin Measure) 30cts. 

WILSON, LOCKWOOD, EVEEETT & CO,, 
General Agents, 

201 Fulton St., N. Y. City. 



Pass Him Around. 

United States Mail Agent Thomas C. Smith 
on Saturday found in the New Haven Depot a 
package containing $22,000 in cash. On re- 
turning it to its owner, Mr. Watson, a soap 
mauufactm'er of Boston, he received as a re- 
ward $2,000 and a valuable diamond pin. 



The following lines of " poetry "' taken from 
an obituary notice in the New York Times of 
January 16th, however appropriate and just to 
the deceased, reflect rather severely upon the 
survivors : — 

■' God takes the good, too good on earth to stay, 
And leaves the bad, too bad lo tai^e away." 



The Ikpalliblb Test. — On entering the 
chamber of a French marquis one morning, 
whom he had attended through a very danger- 
ous illness. Dr. Bouvart was thus accosted: 
" Good-day to you, Mr. Bouvart ; I feel quite 
in spirits, and think my fever has left me." 

" I am sure it has," replied Bouvart, dryly. 
" The very first expression you used convinces 
me of it.' 

"Pray, explain yourself." 

" Nothing is easier. In the first days of your 
illness, when your life was in danger, I was 
your dearest friend ; as you began to get bet- 
ter, I was your good Bouvart ; and now I am 
Mr. Bouvart : depend upon it, you are quite 
recovered. " 



An EQtirvocAi, Answer. — A certain literary 
gentleman, wishing to be undisturbed one day, 
instructed his servant to admit no one, and if 
any one should inquire for him to give them 
an equivocal answer. Night came, and the 
gentleman proceeded to interrogate Pat as to 
callers. "Did any one call?" "Yes, sir, 
wan gintleman." " What did he say ?'' "He 
axed was yer honor in." " Well, what did 
you tell him ? ' " Sure, I gave him a quivikle 
answer jist." "How was that?" "I axed 
him was his grandmother a monkey ! ' ' 



— A biography of Robespierre, published in a 
late Irish paper, concludes with the following 
remarkable sentence : " This extraordinary 
man left no children behind him except his 
brother, who was killed at the same time." 



— ' ' I say, boy, stop that ox ! " "I haven't got 
no stopper. " " Well, head him, then. " " He's 
already headed, sir." "Confoimd your im- 
pertinence, turn him!"' " He's right side out 
already, sir.'' " Speak to him, you rascal, 
you !" " Good morning, Mr. Ox.'' 

An exchange tells of a negro who insisted 
that his race was mentioned in the Bible. He 
said he had heard the preacher read about how 
" Nigger Demus wanted to be born again." 



— Abernethy used to tell his pupils that all 
human diseases sprang from two causes, 
stuffiny and fretting. 

— Contrasted Proverbs. — " In a multitude of 
councillors there is wisdom. — Solomon. In a 
multitude of councilmen there is folly. — N. Y. 
Tax-Payer. 



Our life is but a winter's day ; 
Some only breakfast, and away ! 
Others to dinner st;iy, and are full fed : 
The oldest man but sups and goes to bed ! 
Large is his debt, who lingers through the day ; 
Who goes the soonest, has the least to pay I 



The following letter has been handed 
to us by Me. George F. Wilson, the 
Treasurer of the Rnniford Chemical 
Works, of Providence, E. I. It is from 
Peter Henderson, Esq., the Seedsman, 
Florist, and Agricultural Writer; he 
needs no introduction from us where 
ever an agricultural newspaper is taken, 
or agricultural tiooks circulate. 

New Yoek, October 20, 1868. 
To Mr. Geo. F. Wilson. 

Dear Sie, — Last spring I purchased from 
your office in New York one ton of your 
"Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
Lime," costing $G0, and at the same time I 
bought a ton of No. 1 Peruvian Guano, 
costing $85, with a view to test the Superphos- 
phate against the Guano, by careful experi- 
ment. Accordingly, two acres of our richest 
market garden ground was measured off, and 
carefully ploughed. One acre was sown with 
the Guano, and the other with your Super- 
phosphate, on the ploughed surface, then 
thoroughly harrowed in and sown with beets 
and onions, equal quantities on each acre. 
The crops on both acres were unusually early 
and large, netting a clear profit of $500 per 
acre, (even at the low rates at which all early 
vegetables sold last summer in New York). 
There was no perceptible difference in the 
effects produced by the Guano and Superphos- 
phate on the crops of onions and beets ; both 
were extra fine. But the second crop (^celery) 
noio shows tJie finest on the acre fertilized with 
your Superplwsphate. 

Yery respectfully yours, 

PETER HENDERSON. 



The next letter on the same subject, 
was written to JoJui Knox, Esq.. the 
" Small Fruit" Grower, by Col. Mason 0. 
Weld, of New York, well known as an 
Agricultural Chemist, and Associate 
Editor of the "American Agriculturist." 

New York, June 7th, 1869. 
TV John Knox, Esq., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Dear Sik,— My friend Mr. Potter, of Wil- 
son, Lockwood, Everett & Co., of New York, 
tells me you have made inquiiy concerning 
"Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
Lime," and asks if I will give you my opinion 
of it. / buy it for my own use, knowing the 
article and having made comparative tests with 
it last year, in which it stood better than any 
other Superi>hosphate that I tried, save one. 
and fully equal, if not better than that one on 
certain crops. I am personally acquainted 
with the members of the lirm of Wilson, Lock- 
wood, Everett & Co., and know that their re- 
presentations can be strictly relied ui)on. 

Yours truly, MASON C. WELD. 

\A'il.son's Ammoniated Superphos- 
phate of Lime, above referred to, can be 
had of us direct, or through any of the 
agricultural seed stores, in any iiuantity, 
from 100 lbs. to 1,000 tons. 

Fiice, $60 per Ton. 

A pamphlet, descriptive of the aljove 
fertilizer, sent free upon application. 

Every ton warranted equal to standard. 

Wilson, Lock-wood, Everett & Co., 

GENERAL AGENTS, 

201 Fulton St., N.Y. 



16 



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[January. 



IVEW r>ET»OTS. 

In addition to our Agenciet* in Hip principal 
cities and towns of tlie WEST, for the greater 
convenience of the trade, we have established 
Depotn for all our goods in Chicago, Cincinnati 
.•Old St. Louis, as follows ; 

CHICAGO, 

Messrs. KING k OWEN, 250 & 252 South Water St. 

CINCINNATI-, 

Messrs. E. M. BISHOF & CO., S5 and 87 Eace St. 

ST. LOUIS, 

Messrs. FEED. F. EOSIEE & CO., 521 North 2d St. 
Orders for Horsforii's Bread Preparation, 
liumfnrd Yeast Poirders, Horsfo-rd' s (Jremn of 
Tartar iSuhstitiitf, &c., &c., will be received 
and filled at the above Depots, as well as by 
many other Agents, whose names ai'e given 
elsewliere, without the delay of shipment from 
New York. Buyers of our goods in small 
quantities will always xare monei/, as well as 
time, by ordering of our nearest Agent. 

Wilson, Lockwood, Everett &. Co, 

201 FnUou St., X.Y. 



Aduxteeation of Floue. — Last week, before 
the Sheffield borough magistrates, Alfred 
Tangle, of the Victoria and Albert Mills, Bright 
villc, was charged with having unlawfully adul- 
terated flour, &c., with alum. It was proved 
that defendant had purchased from a druggist 
no less than eOOlbs of alum, with which he had 
adulterated about soo,OOOlbs of flour. Defend- 
ant had three retail shops besides his mills, and 
carries on a large trade. The magistrates said 
it was a very liad case, and fined the defend- 
ant £H> and costs, with the alternative of a 
month's imprisonment ; particulars of the 
offence to be puV)lished in the newspapers in 
addition. The evidence caused a great sensa- 
tion in court. — London Paper. 



Use John Dwight & Co.'s • 

BEST-SALAERATUS, 
or their Super Carb. Soda. 

No others are equal to these for cooking 
purposes. Estalilished 1846. 

JOHN DWIGHT & CO., 

11 Old Slip, New York. 



I — A man can give his neighbor a promissory 

note, moistened by a fluid just invented by a 

French chemist, and in a month afterward the 

holder will have nothing to show for it but a 

little dust. If this fact becomes generally 

! known, short credit will become the nde — in 

! order that the borrower may be compelled to 

! come down with the dust before his note does. 



HORSFORD'S 

Acid Phosphate, 

(MEDICINAL,) 

Prepared by the 

RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS, 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

UNDliK THE DIRECTION OF 

Professoij E. N. Horsfukd, 

f.nfp Riiniford Prnfessar at Harvard (Jnivcrmit/ 
Ca7/ibrido-e, Ma.tx. 



A Bad One. — I remember once hearing an 

I Irishman ask whether Tl\omas Case was a 

; rogue. "Is it Tom?' exclaimed Pat with a 

look of astonishment, " Pon me sowl, if I had 

a warrant agin the divil, I'd take Tom Case on 

suspicion." 



BURNET & LEONARD, 

Steam Boiler Manufacturers 

44? *.o 452 Ogden Street. Newark, N, J. 

MARINE AND STATIONARY BOILERS, 

OIL STILLS, \VATER TANKS. 

VARNISH KETTLES, 

STEAM RENDERING TANKS 
for Lard, Tallow and Grease. 

OUR 

for Steam Engines always on hand. 

OUK SPECIALITY 18 

First-Ciass Work at less than New YorkPrices 



The value of preparations of acid phosphates 
as therapeutic agents is in keeping with well- 
known chemical principles. 

So far as experience goes, Horsford's Acid 
Phosphate seems to act as if it were nutriment 
to the cerebral and nervous systems, restoring 
to their normal action secretory organs that 
have been deranged, giving vigor where there 
has been debility, and renewed strength where 
there has been exhaustion. 

It has hecii f'yimd especiaUy seroiceaMe, in. dys 
perpnia and disorders incident thereto : in iiri- 
nary diffieidties, proceedinff f mat. paralysis of the 
Madder or sphineler, and is kitt'irn to he usefal 
in tendencies to gravel and .rpermatorrhoi, in 
cerebral and spinal paralysis, mental eThanition , 
icakef Illness, hys^'cria, and other nernms affec- 
tions. 

Each fluid drachm contains : 

.032 of a grain of metallic iron, in the form i 
of oxide combined as an acid phosphate. '• 

1 .100 of uncombiued, potential tribasic phos- 1 
phoric acid, mixed with tribasic phos- [ 
phoric acid combined as monobasic phos- 
phate of lime, potassa, magnesia and 
ammonia. 

It contains no pyro-phosphate, ormeta-phos- ' 
phate of any base whatever. 

Most excellent results have attended its ad- 
ministration for the prostration and nervous 
symptoms following >^>in.<itroke. j 

Physicians desiring to examine and test this j 
I'emedy, are retiuested to apply by letter, or j 
otherwise, to the undersigned. — 

Wilson, Locl(wood, Everett & Co., 

General Agents, 

201 Fulton St., N. Y. | 



' — Brick Pomeroy boasts that he once worked 
I at a case alongside of a negro printer, and Siiys 
I he is proud of the fact. Now let us hear from 
! the darkey 

— A man in Cincinnati advertises for a situ- 
ation : "Work not so much an object as good 
wages. 

— An old trapper of Arizona, who has just 
scalped his fifteenth Indian, says : " It is good 
slaying out liere this season. " 

The lady Principal of a school, in her ad- 
vertisement, mentioned her lady assistant, and 
the " reputation for teaching which she bears;" 
but the printer left out the " which," so the ad- 
vertisement went forth commending the lady's 
" re])Utation for teaching she bears" 

My mother wants to know if your mother 11 

lend ^"^^ mnfli^i' vnnr TnnttiAr'Q rtiptn vp tn nmUp 

our 



ly mother wants to know if your mother 11 
1 my mother your mother's pickaxe to make 
hog a hen-coop ? 



— Work is not the worst thing in the world. 
Dr. Weinhold describes it as in the first ages a 
necessity, in the classical ages a burden, in the 
middle ages a privilege, in modern times a 
right, in the future a duty, and at all times 
ideally, a pleasure. It is indeed a fact, that 
without work man becomes wretched. 



English Pimue. — "While Marshal Sebasti- 
an! was French Minister in England, he sat 
next Lord Palmerston at a city dinner, and, 
after listening to all that was said in praise of 
England in the various speeches delivered 
during the evening, he remarked to his neigh- 
bor, ' Oh, my lord, if I was not a Frenchman 
I should wish to be an Englislunan.' 'And 
I,' coldly replied old Pam, 'if I was not an 
Englishman, should wish to be one.' " 



WATERMAN'S 



CAST mON BAKE-PANS, 

Also known as the 

"gem: p^ist," 

Of \arious shapes aiul s\7,e!i, T9r Baking 

White & Graham Rolls, Biscuit, Corn 
Cakev Etc.. Etc. 

They Bake more Quickly than Tin or Sheet Iron. 

They produce Lighter Biscuit, Cake, Etc. 

They do not wear out. 

They eive more Crust. 

They do not Bum the Dough. 

Much Time is Saved, a^ it is not necessary to Mould or 
Shape the Dough. 

They are recommended as THE BEST by the Manu- 
facturers of Hors/ord's Bread Preparation. 

Manufactured and sold to the trade by 

RUSSELL &. ERWIN MANUFACTURING CO. 

45 & 47 Chambers Steet, New York Citv. 



The Original and only Genuine 

LIEBIG'S 

Extract of Meat, 

IS MADE BT THE 

LIEBIG EXTEAOT OF MEAT 00., 

A7i(l hns flic iSifjnii/iires (if Baron Lic- 

bifj. Ihe inrevfar, (uiil of Ma.r PeUen- 

icoffer. (Irh'iiiiie. on evenj Jar, wifJi- 

(inf w/n'rJi none ran he e/enuine. 

It is the only ai'ticle that received GOLD 
MEDALS AT PARIS 1867, HAVRE 1868, and 
THE GRAND DIPLOMA (superior to the 
Gold Medal), at AMSTERDAM 18t;9. 

It is invaluable as Food, especially for those 
who need strengthening diet. It seciu'es econ- 
omy in houselieeeping, and excellence in 
cookery, while saving time, trouble, fuel and 
health. ' It is admirably adapted to the use of 
Travelers' and Hunters . and on ship-board and 
on farms and plantations where fresh meat 
cannot be had for daily use. It keeps foryears 
in any climate. 

Be particular to ask for LIEBIG'S COM- 
PANY'S extract, and 

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. 
./. MTLHAVS SONS. 
183 Broadway, N. Y.. 

SOLE AGENTS. 



TABLE TALK. 

"A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP." 



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The Republican Court. 

Certain very respectable gentlemen of 
this cit}', prominent among whom was 
Mr. Moses H. Grinnell, recently gave 
a private entertainment to Prince 
Arthur, at Delmoriico's. Great care 
was exercised by these gentlemen that 
none should lie invited to this exclusive 
affair, who by social position and culture 
were not qualified to do honor to the 
distinguished guest. When supper was 
announced, the Prince was escorted to a 
private room, where, with a few very 
select companions, the royal hunger was 
appeased. The larger portion of the 
company were graciously permitted to 
suimear by, and possibly found consola- 
tion in listening to the distant mur- 
murs of the Prince's voice, and the clink 
of his glass, as the entrancing sounds 
floated through the partition walls to 



their expectant ears. This arrangement 
may have lieen according to European 
court etiquette, and might in Europe be 
considered in good taste, but here it was 
degrading to those by whose order the 
distinction was made, and insulting to 
the ladies and gentlemen who were 
obliged to submit to it. It would be in- 
teresting to know Juitr the line was 
drawn which thus sejiarated the sheep 
from the goats. Fancy the solemn coun- 
cil in session to decide who should sit at 
the Prince's table. What delicate bal- 
ancing of rival claims are there, as the 
the name of each candidate for the 
high honor is brought forward I How 
many nice points have to be discussed 
and adjusted, of comiiarative wealth, in- 
come, location and style of residence, 
number of servants, horses and carriages, 
quantity of plate, diamonds, the church 
attended, dress worn, family physician, 
style of tomb in Greenwood and so on 
ad injinit nni ! And then, appeared to 
that cominittee, the skeleton liefore the 
feast, the sad reflection, that decide how 
they would, every invited guest omitted 
from the '• roll of honor" became from 
that hour their secret but deadly enemy I 
Let us drop the curtain on this new act 
of Vanity Fair, and leave these ^•enera- 
ble courtiers to the inevitable penalty of 
their snobbishness. 



Modesty and Medicine. 

The question whether those women 
who desire to qualify themselves as phy- 
sicians, shall be allowed the same priv- 
ileges extended to the other sex, and 
especially that of attendance upon the 
regular Clinics of the hospitals, has 
again forced itself upon the imblic atten- 
tion under peculiarly disagreeable cir- 
cumstances. It will be but too well 
remembered that in November last, cer- 
tain medical students at the Pennsyl- 
vania Hospital in Philadelphia, mani- 
fested their gentlemanly instincts, and, 
at the same time, their opposition to the 
presence of some thirty female students, 
by howling and jeering at these ladies 
as they entered and departed from the 
hospital. These young men knew that 
the female students had the same per- 



18 



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[February, 



mission from the Board of Managers to 
attend the Clinics as themselves, but 
they attempted to constitute themselves 
both makers and executers of the law. 
Public opinion condemned in very plain 
terms the manner of their opposition, 
and the rights of female students — there 
at least — were more plainly acknowl- 
edged and firmly established than before. 
Scarcely has this storm of indignation 
aroused by the action of the Philadel- 
phia students subsided, when a similar 
outrage is rejiorted at Bellevne Hospital, 
in this city. For several years the 
Clinics at Bellevne have been attended 
by students of both sexes. The ladies 
now attending are also students of the 
Woman's Medical College, and as such 
ai'e entitled to the privileges of Bellevne, 
both under the charter of that institti- 
tion and by Legislative law. Yet with- 
out having given any provocation by 
word or deed, they were assailed in the 
lecture-room by foul and indecent lan- 
guage and paper missiles, and one of ihe 
ladies received in her laji an indecent 
drawing which was characterized by the 
lecturer — Prof. Wood — as " shockingly 
obscene." These acts, it will be remem- 
bered, were not the mad pranks of 
thoitghtless school-boys; they were per- 
petrated by ineti of accountable age ; by 
men who [claim recognition of decent 
people, and who expect under their title 
of pJn/fiician to be admitted into our 
families and to the professional confi- 
dence of pure and refined women. " But 
surely," says the incredulous reader, 
"they must have experienced some 
provocation ; they certainly give some 
reason for such unusual and unmanly 
conduct." Yes, they do offer an excuse, 
both the Pliiladelphia students and 
those of Bellevne, and let them have the 
full benefit of it. Their defense is sim- 
ply this, that in their opinion, it is im- 
modest and unwomanly for these ladies 
to obtrude their presence at the Clinics, 
during the unavoidable personal expo- 
sure necessary in many cases of disease 
and surgical operations, and that their 
own sensibilities arc shocked by having 
to view these cases in company with wo- 
men. This is the pith of their argu- 
ment. Now it may fairly be doubted 
whether with the majority of medical 
students this is true, for they certainly 
bear a reputation for pretty thick skins; 
and, as a class, would hardly serve as 
models of monility and propriety in 
their relations with the other sex. Yet 
these are the fellows who with burning 
cheeks and down-cast eyes shrink from 
the presence of pure women, and who 
are driven by very excess of delicacy 
into acts of indecent desperation ! 



If these female students had ever given 
evidence of unworthy or impure motives; 
if they had not compelled the respect 
of all their pure minded associates, 
would they have been subjected to such 
treatment? No! The very men who 
perpetrated these outrages would have 
courted their favor, and would have 
been their friends and protectors. And 
if the students of Bellevne who condemn 
these lawless and unmanly acts of a 
portion of their number, do not publicly 
express their disapproval, a stigma will 
rest upon the entire body, and may afiect 
the professional career of innocent per- 
sons. 

Now we are disposed to believe that 
some students and even practicing phy- 
sicians are embarrassed by the presence 
of ladies during the investigation of de- 
licate cases of disease, and it is even, 
possible that their skill in manipulating 
instruments may thereby be affected. 
But the delicate organization which 
renders such men susceptible to this 
embarrassment also makes it impossible 
for them to be even passive witnesses of 
stich outrages as occurred at Bellevne. 

That many women desire a physician 
of their own sex is very certain ; and 
that some women intend to qualify 
themselves for such service is an estab- 
lished fact. The opposition may be 
strong and bitter, but the experiment 
will be tried in spite of all the medical 
students and colleges in the laud. For 
the honor of the profession then give 
woman a fair chaiK'e. If she is willing 
to brave the taunts of men, to endure 
the revolting sights and sounds of the 
amphitheatre to fit herself for her high 
calling, respect her motives and courage 
if you can not approve her judgment. 
Until female physicians are sufficiently 
numerous to support hospitals and oper- 
ating rooms of their own, they must be 
allowed the privileges of such as are now 
established, even at the cost of some 
annoyance to our modest doctors of the 
other sex. 

^^M 

Greenbacks at Par. 

About the only surprising circum- 
stance connected with the late impor- 
tant decision of the Supreme Court of 
the United States, that all existing 
contracts or debts made or created pre- 
vious to the passage of the Legal Tender 
Act, (February 25, 1863), must be paid 
in coin, is the remarkably small effect 
produced upon business transactions or 
the public mmd. Under this decision, 
the payment of coin may be required 
upon the principal or interest of Mori- 
gacjes, of Bonds, of States, Counties 
and Towns, or of Eailroad Com- 



panies and other Corporations ; of 
Promissory Notes, Life, and probably. 
Fire Insnrance Pojicies, Reiitah, &c., 
&c., all of course of date previous to 
February 25, 18(32, and where the 
original contract has not been vitiated 
or changed. The reasons for this apathy 
are various, such as an indisposition to 
arouse o^ijiosition and hard feeling by 
pressing claims under the decision, and 
the low jnice of gold : but, chiefly, feeling 
that every attem])t to enforce claims by 
the creditor will be promptly resisted by 
litigation in the State Courts, whereby 
delay nuiy Ije experienced, even for 
years, in collecting claims in an>i form, 
and involving heavy expenses. The 
result would not be certain, and if in 
the State Courts the claim fi>i- coin 
should not be sustained, the plaintiff' 
would have to yield or appeal to the U. 
S. Supreme Court. Now the original 
decision, first announced, was concurred 
in by four out of seven Jtulges. there 
being Iavo vacancies, and a majority of a 
quorum l>eing sulScient to decide a 
case in that court. But when those two 
vacancies are filleJ, who can say witii 
any certainty that this decision might 
not be reversed ? It is improbalile, but 
possible, and there is just sufficient of 
that element of inicerfriintti to deter 
creditors from pressing their claims in 
the face of determined op])osition. The 
opinion of the Court was pulilicly an- 
nounced on the 7th of February, and 
we have yet to hear of a single compli- 
ance with a demand for coin, or of an 
attempt to enforce a claim in the State 
Courts. 



The Honors Divided. 

The Ckn'sfidH Union has justly at- 
tracted much attention and received 
great praise from the reading world since 
Mr. Beecher assumed the position of 
chief editor. This is a proof of the warm 
interest felt by the public in Mr. Beecher 
and in all that he undertakes, as well as 
a compliment to his editorial proficiency. 
While meting out full justice to the 
ability of the talented editor-in-chief, the 
public has overlooked the silent claims 
of the gentleman who fii-st made that 
paper respectable and influential, and to 
whose zeal and energy the Gliristian 
Vnionis still indebted for its high posi- 
tion as a leading religious journal. We 
refer to the Reverend CRAMiiOND Ken- 
KEDT. When the old Church Union 
had fallen so low that that "thei-e were 
none so poor as to do it reverence," Mr. 
Kennedy bought out the pajier, and as 
sole editor and proprietor determined to 
retrieve its lost fortunes. We watched 
his struggles with keen interest ; the 



1870. J 



TABLE TALK. 



19 



odds were against him. but the genial 
Christian spirit of the paper rallied sj'm- 
pathizing friends to his side, and nnder 
. his enthusiastic efforts the Church Union 
fought its way to the front, to a position 
as a dignified Christian lil)eral journal, 
to which good men of all denominations 
w ere glad to contribute. At this stage 
a stoclv company was formed, in which 
Messrs. Ford & Co. and otlier well-known 
publishers were largely interested, and 
the name of the i)aper was clianged to 
that of the Christ iaii Union, Mr. Ken- 
nedy continued to lie the working-editor, 
audit is nodisiiaragement of Mr. Beecher 
to say that tlie burden of editorial hibor 
and responsibility still rests ujioii Mr. 
Kennedy's shoulders. 

The Christian Union can now "stand 
alone ;" it is a success. We iire heartily 
glad of it, for it is the only religious 
journal within our knowledge wliich 
faithfully strives to allay sectarian strife, 
and to iind points of resemblance and 
liarmony among Christians, ratlier than 
those of difl'ercnce. Christians have 
fought among thehiselves over dry doc- 
trinal husks for centuries, without ad- 
vancing the sacred cause one atom l)y 
such means; now let us try the other 
way, and -jierhaps when mir hearts are 
purged of their sectai'ian comhativeiiess, 
we may ex|)erience on eartli a little of 
the heaven we all hope tii i-cach he 
after. 



Science, Falsely So Called. 

There is no doubt that people should 
know a great deal more about them- 
selves and the things around them than 
they do. Science must l)e made popu- 
lar in the seuse that wiuitever can be 
rendered into common language, or 
l)rought within the grasp of common 
reasoning, sluiuld be widely taught. A 
love of science should also be cultivated. 
Hajjpily there is a thirst for just such 
intnrmation, and book-writers, editors, 
and lecturers recognize the tone of the 
market with delicate precision. And 
here comes in a mischief wliich is grow- 
ing rank, the large dissemination of 
acience, falseti/ so called. There are lec- 
turers who are anxious to instruct the 
dear people, whose whole stock in trade 
is that that they have crammed a book, 
as the college expression goes. If you 
challenge their statenients,^nd ask for 
the authority, they appeal to Professor 
Nobody and Professor Noljody and Pro- 



most cherished ornaments by more 
mountebanks than liy those who have 
legitimately attained them through 
scholarship. And if you look through 
Professor Nobody's book to find the an- 
cestry of his facts, you will doubtless see 
a fine parade of great names quoted, but 
all in a jumble. The writer is plainly 
lifting himself up on the shoulders of 
giants in science, not to see more him- 
self from that precarious height, but to 
be seen l)y the dear public ! And when 
he does venture on an opinion of his 
own, it is at the expen.se of a great 
tumble. In fact, liis work will not bear 
any criticism, and true scientists will 
give him a severe letting alone as a 
humbug. But the lecturers and the 
papers must have their pabulum, and so 
the book sells, albeit a great "' sell.'' 

The daily press i^ropagates a vast deal 
of absurdity of this kind. Every paper 
has its scientific corner for the dear 
people, who like the paragraphs as they 
do sugar-plums. There is surely some- 
thing very grand in being able to tell 
your neighbor all about the fossil giant, 
and how many centuries old it is ; about 
the chemistry of digestion; about the 
meteors ; about the deep-sea dredgings, 
etc. But then the press can not aflTord 
to keej) scientific experts in their edi- 
torial rooms, and they have a man usu- 
u'e- 1 ally called "'Scissors'' — or it may be a 
I boy ; most any one who can read will do. 
I Now this ubiquitous " Scissors '' is just 
as intelligent as a broom, and does 
pretty much the same work in gathering 
trash, only that he is able to paste it to- 
gether. The amount of crude, garbled, 
distorted, false science that is thus 
broadly propagated is extraordinary, for 
the most part through simple ignorance. 
As every story gathers in traveling, so 
original facts get amplified and tw'isted, 
and argued into wretched nonsense. 
Even in the first-class journals we see 
almost every day specimens of this mis- 
erable literature. "Worse than the igno- 
rance, tJiere is, again, not unfrequently 
a systematic effort to poison the chan- 
nels of public news by false science, for 
the deliberate purpose of influencing 
trade, affecting the market price of 
commodities, or preparing a golden path 
for some new invention. It is one of 
the neatest tricl-: ; which graces our 
American civilizutiou, to betray her 
newspapers into raising a sensation on 
some subject, economical and sanitary. 



a holding which almost nothing will root 
out. Beware of false prophets ! 



An Economical President. 

Not many years ago a presidential conven- 
tion was considering tlie qualifications of 
various candidates for the high offlce of 
Chief Magistrate, and Millard Fillmore was 
among the aspirants for the position. A 
trusted friend in his interest labored faithfully 
with the individual members of the conven- 
tion, and linally reached the Maine delegation. 
One of these gentlemen met Mr. Fillmore's 
friend more than half way, and declared en- 
thusiastically his intention to vote for Fillmore 
— " every time." Said he, " I was once invited 
to a dinner party at Mr. Fillmore's residence. 
We had a good time, and Mr. Fillmore made a 
speech. "While he was speaking we heard a 
nistling in the pantry behind. Mr. Fillmore 
paused, stepped back and opened the pantry 
door. A mouse was in the flour barrel. Mr. 
Fillmore seized the mouse by the scruif of 
the neck, raised him, shook him gently over 
the barrel until all the adhering fiour had 
fallen back into the barrel, and then, going 
to the window, dropped the offender softly 
on the ground. Now, sir, the man in whose 
character is thus combined — such profound 
economy with so much humanity — is my choice 
for president!'' 



All 



fessor Nobody. You look up the works 

of this distinguished gentleman, and in the name of science ! 

you find on the title-page that he is an When once a notion on any subject 

M. D. or a late Professor. Now it hap- has been largely published to the people 

pens that both these titles are worn aii and innocentlyadoptedby them, it gains 



Value of Phosphoric Acid in 
Medicine. 

P^rom the Chicago Medical Journal we 
quote the following extracts from an in- 
teresting monograph on the physiolog- 
ical action and tlierapeutic uses of dilute 
phosphoric acid, written by Dr. .Tudsou 
B. Andrews, physician in the New Voi-k 
State Lunatic Asylum. 

" Cases are sometimes under treatment at the 
Asylum, and more frequently in private prac- 
tice, especially from among literary, profes- 
sional or business men, which are characterized 
by loss of mental power from excessive brain 
activity. 

"The patient is languid, unable to perform 
mental labor with the usual facility, is nervous, 
at times fearful, timid and agitated; the mem- 
ory is weakened, and permanent impairment 
seriously threatened. Examination reveals no 
organic lesion, but the symptoms are such as 
justly occasion alarm. Such cases have been 
improperly called by some recent writers cases 
of cerebral paresis, a term too strong in its im- 
port, but expressive of the great danger which 
impends. For the recovery of these cases, re- 
laxation from business and labor, and the use 
of the phosphoric acid, combined with some 
suitable tonic, generally suffices. 

•' In case where menial effort has been pro- 
tracted till a sense of weariness renders its 
continuance difficult, a dose of the acid, from 
its stimulant effect, relieves fatigue and seems 
to invigorate the mental powers, and prepare 
the mind for renewed exertion."" In the night 
in order to prepare the way for some in- i sweats attending consumption, and other ex- 
coming discoverer or pill-vender. 



hausting diseases, this acid is employed with 
benefit, and has some advantages over the aro- 
matic sulphuric acid, so generally used. It is 
much more agreeable to the taste, more likely 
to be tolerated, and does not constipate the 
bowels. The anti-scnrliutic power of this acid 



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("February, 



is well settled. A marked case of purpura oc- 
curred in tbe Asylum recently. The patient 
had been an inmate for several months, and 
though eating the ordinary diet of the house, 
in which vegetables are bountifully supplied, 
became scorbutic. The gums were red and 
spongy ; there was lassitude, soreness of the 
muscles, and an eruption presenting the forms 
of petechise and vibices upon tbe anterior of 
the chest and tbe inner surface of t)ie thighs. 
•The patient was given the acid in half 
drachm doses, and in two weeks entirely re- 
covered. In cases of aniEmia and chlorosis, 
in both of which there is a depressed condition 
of the nervous system, phosphoric acid in 
combination with ferruginous tonics, has been 
found especially efficacious. ****** 

■' Plmaphorus in substance is now recom- 
mended in many of the Journals, in some forms 
of paralysis, in locomotor ataxy, and in other 
of the neuroses. If in tin element difficult to 
dUpenxe unil diingenjun to iidininintcr. In the 
stomach it is converted largel)' into phosphoric 
acid. It is from this change taking place in 
the stomach, that the danger is to be appre- 
hended. Is it not better to employ the acid, 
which in proper doses is harmless, than to in- 
cur tlie risk of consequences in giving phos- 
phorus in substance ? ******** 

"In the administration of this remedy, one 
general principle should be kept in mind, viz : 
not to e.Khibit it in cases of congestion of the 
brain, or in those in which there is an inflamma- 
tory action, either in the nerve substance or 
the meninges, »s its stimulant effect might 
prove an aggravation to existing disease. In 
no case in which it has lieen given, has it dis- 
turbed digestion. or proved an irritant to the 
stomach, even when its administration has 
been prolonged." 

The foregoing remarks tipou plio.s- 
l^horicacid apply with increased force to 
that form of thi.s invaluable agent jtre- 
pared Ijy Professor E. N. llorsford. (of 
Harvard University.) and known as 
'•Ifnrsfiird's Acid Fkosphati:' 

Physicians will find an abstract of 
analysis of the Acid Phosphate in an- 
other column of this Paper. 

* A professor in one of our Medical Schools, 
in a ktter to Dr. Gray, recently remarked : | 

" Wonderful thing that phosphoric acid, and 
well named by me pliyschological lemonade. 
My Unu'h at noon (we dine at six) consists of 
ricu cheese, bre id, and a glass of phosphoric 
acid lemonade, and on that I have worked eight 
and nine hours a day, with my pen, for the 
past seven weeks in this hot weather, without 
Headache or any depression. I never lake 
over fifteen drops, and only once a day, and 
when f.itigued. It is wonderful how quick it ; 
climbs into the anterior lobes, scatters capillary 
congestion, and satisfies the hungry tis.sues 
with its own p.ibulum. ' 



Unhonored and Unsung. 

The half-serious detiuition of military 
glory, as " getting killed on the field aud 
having your name mis-spelled in the 
Gazeftv,'' finds its counterpart in the 
distinction usually arrived at by the 
inventor of useful and valuable improve- 
ments, which benefit mankind if not 
himself. Really meritorious inventions 
are generally ascribed to any but the 
aefual inventor, and too often his share 



of the pecuniary profit arising from his 

work is in ]n'o])orfioii to the fame ac- 
quired. 

The perverse tendency of the world 
to ignore the real author of new inven- 
tions has been again illustrated in the 
Xeiv York Tribune, which lately iiub- 
lished an article giving all the credit due 
for the use of cast iron in Architecture 
to Mr. Badger of the ArchitecUiral Iron 
Works of N. Y., when no fact has been 
more fully demonstrated than that Mr. 
James Bogardus made the first cast-iron 
columns, and erected (in New York) the 
first cast-iron building. He made with 
his own hands the original patterns for 
the ornamental portion of the fronts, 
including the capitals of the Corinthian 
columns, and a writer in the Tribune of 
February 5tli, states that the whole profit 
realized by Mr. Bogardus from his pa- 
tented inventions and improvements in 
this business, which he originated, has 
not exceeded ^4,500. 



We have taken the liberty of printing 
the subjoined communication from Di-. 
Adolph Oft, formerly of the "Ecole 
Polytechnique" in Zurich, (Switzerland), 
aud well known in this city through his 
writings in the Journal of Applied 
Chemiatri/ and other scientific i)ublica- 
tions. The opinion of Dr. Ott is the 
more significant from the fact that he 
was one of the Judges of the last Fair 
of the American Insfifute, and in that 
capacity, examined and compared the 
various competing Baking Powders. 

New Yoi:k, January 2St/i, 1870. 
Messes Wilson, Lookwood, Eveebtt & Co. 

New Yoek. 
Gentlemen : 
I have made a series of experiments with all 
the self-raising bread preparations, or baking 
powders, now to be found in the New York 
market, and it affords me pleasure to state that 
with the Baking Powder of Professor llors- 
ford known as "Horsford's Bread Prepara- 
tion," I have succeeded in producing not only 
the most palatable, but also the whitest and 
most cellular bread, pastry and cakes. As 
regards the high nutritive value of phosphates 
in bread, or food in general, I scarcely can 
believe that any doubt can be entertained about 
it by any i)hysician of the present day, who is 
at all acquainted with the progress of physio- 
logical researches during the last decades. 
Very Respectfully, 

ADOLPH OTT, 

Analytical Chemist. 



More deserving of gratitude, eulogium, praise, 
Than the Claeiojj's ?iew /leading which floats 
at her mast. 
Her enlargement is such, that she ranks first in 
size 
Of Arkansas journals, of old, or young date; 
Planters, merchants, traders her rare virtues 
prize ; 
Her merits unparalleled all celebrate. 

The Atlantic and Pacific together are wed; 

The bands are of Iron that do them combine; 
The future will hear the Steam-cars proud tread. 

And ages unborn will bless Oil. 
A stately monument, too, our Court-House will 
stand ; 
The November Fair will hold a high place ; 
The Evergreen Cemeteiy, with its deathstricken 
band. 
As we speak, naught can from our memory 
efface. 

The "Steam-Cars proud tread "is certainly 
a "bold figger," and a new one, and the versa- 
tilty of the poet is beautifully illustrated by 
the case with which he glides from the "iVo- 
vemher Fair " to the dark and gloomly picture 
of the ^'■Eeergreen Cemetiri/." 



The Helena [Arkansas] Weekly Clarion of 
Januarj' 5, publishes under the heading of 
"Fiietry and Miscellany," eleven stauz.is enti- 
tled "Our earner's Address," two stanzas of 
which we quote as a sample, although all the 
others are equally good. • 

No improvement so marked does rivet my gaze. 
As taking my exit I look back on the past. 



The Covetous Deacon. 

A DREAM THAT WAS XOT ALT. A DREAM. 

(These verses, which were published anony. 
mousl}' more than ten years ago in a small isolat- 
ed village, were founded on fact, and speedily 
followed by the excommunication of the 
offender. The year is memorable in that 
neighborhood for the ravages that were made 
by diptheria.) 

As I lay on the motionless bosom of sleep, 

I dreamed of a covetous deacon ; 
And his sin and his doom in a sulphurous light 
Flared up and flashed out like a beacon. 

A homeless boy. 

Before she slept at noon his mother's joy. 

And now her care. 

Up there. 

Came to the deacon's door. 

II. 

In my dreaming I heard him beseeching to toil. 

His bread and a shelter for wages, [eyes. 

With a scarce-hid surprise in his grey, wolfish 

The deacon the orphan engages. 

A wolf in wool, 

A selfish schemer as a fawning fool — 

The Devil s there ! 

Beware 
Of every hypocrite ! 

m. 

In my dreaming I saw pallid children in shrouds 

And bosoms with agony swelling; 

While chariots of gold with their horses of fire 

Sped upward from many a dwelling. 

Pale death ajar 

The gate of gloiy held ; a shining car 

An infant throng 

Along 

The rub.v pavement rolled. 

IV. 
The Plague-angel entered the deacon's abode, 

0'er.shadowed his little ones sleeping. 
And breathed in the face of the orphan the bliglit 
That filled the fair valley with weeping. 

Diseased, alone, 

A stranger, and his mother dead, his moan 

Was Christ's appeal 

To heal 

Him in His suffering child. 

V. 

In my dreaming. Love whisper'd to Jdstioe, 
who frowned, 
" In his selfishness resteth his danger :" 
From the Lmd of the Blessed these Seraphs 
had come 
To judge between him and the stranger. 

t pon the toioii 

While Sa/ihath belts were culling Angels down. 

And souls whii stray 

To pray. 

He cast tlie Saviour out. 



1870.] 



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VI. 

The heart of the deacon grew small in niv dream 

And became like a comb without honey; 

I traced him till dusty and bleeding he died 

In the struggle with Mammon for money. 

Upon his soul, 

A conscious and imperishable scroll, 

In holy ire, 

With'fire, 

The Angel .TnsTioE wrote : 

He might hnrr hcni our hrother 

But self he lored mid seiTed too mil. 

And now he biirnti — himself the hell 

To ii'hi'h he 's doom'd foietvr." 



Old English Homes. 

The aspect of the Elizabethan house is known 
to every Englishman. Who does not remem- 
ber the gable end, the gilt vane, the stone-shaft- 
ed oriel, the chimuej's of moulded brick, with 
their rich ornaments, over grown by the honey- 
suckle or the ivy. Outside is the old terrace, 
with its ivied statues and roses; inside the old 
hall, with the lozenged tloor, the stag's horns 
and quaint pictures. What recollections linger 
in the faded tapestrj-, the tall Flemish' tligou, 
the shovelboard, and the worm-eaten cross- 
bows 1 

The houses, built for leisure days of magnifi- 
cence and display, have geuerallj their court- 
yards, where the bridal or the hunting train 
could wind and prance, the terrace where the 
ladies, with merlin in their fists, could pace in 
company with the mad lovers in the ruff and 
cloak, with roses in their shoes, and gilt rapiers 
by their sides ; huge panelled rooms, stamped 
with heraldic devices, where greybearded men 
could entrance Shallows and Ague-cheeks with 
"excellent good conceited things," or perform 
ravishingly upon the viol or ganitio. They 
have high clock towers, bushed with ivy, where 
owls build among the bells, and from whence 
thundering vollies were discharged at the birth 
or marriage of heirs; quaint gardens, with 
clipped hedges, where lovers watched the foun- 
tain god who weeps perpetually for some deed 
done long since in the tiesh ; t)Owling-greens 
where the old knights and chaplains every day 
quarrelled and made friends ; huge halls for 
Christmas feasts and mummings, or a chapel 
for secret masses or early prayers ; long pass- 
ages for voices at n idnight and wind murmur- 
ings; and burial vaults for the dead to lie in 
quietly and be forgotten. 

These old houses could only have been built 
by a nation fearing no enemy. They breathe 
an old secure religious grandeur and faith; they 
boast a richness and a sense of permanence ; 
they were monuments and shrines added to and 
improved till they became objects of pride, of 
love, and of adoration. 

They have been sanctified bj' the residence of 
many ancestors; they seem to have shared their 
joys and sorrows; they had been the theatre of 
great actions and great crimes ; they were the 
visible type of the greatness and wealth of a fam- 
ily. The love of the soil, with our reserved cold 
natures, became a passion as deep as it was 
undemonstrative. No wonder that poets and 
dramatists alike lamented the downfall of the 
patrimonial trees, the prodigal s sale of the 
old mansion, and the arrival of the new lieir, 
a stranger to the land. In the love for these 
old houses there was something unselfish and 
almost sacred ; it was no mere mean exultation 
in the powers of riches; it was a pleasure 
mixed with pain at the thought of past genera- 
tions, a thought which roused to exertion, spur- 
red on drooping virtue, and stimulated ev^ 
the noblest energy. No wonder that the Amer- 



ican traveller visits these mansions still as the 
chief characteristics of the old country, looking 
upon them as contemporaries of Shakespere, 
places where FalstafP visited and The two Gen- 
tlemen met. 

The Elizabethan houses are wonderful in 
their individualit}-. They seem to share all the 
hopes, and joj's, and i^assions of the builder. 
They have sunny spots, caves of shadow, 
l)right clear quadrangles, and glfiomy coiTidors. 
There is no mood in your mind they will not 
fit. They have about them a calm stately dig- 
nity, neither self conscious nor arrogant. They 
do not oppress you with a sense of wealth, but 
greet you like old friends. They are neither 
flimsy nor tawdry, nor so massy and dark as to 
remind you of a workhouse and a gaol. The)' 
seem fit for all seasons. They are cool in 
summer and cheery in winter. The terrace is 
for .June, the porch for December. The bay 
window is so clear and airy that you could not 
believe the same house had that red cavern of 
a fire-iilace, the very shrine of comf.:)rt and 
of warmth, hallowed both by legend and recol- 
lection. Alas! that one cannot order an ave- 
nue ready made, that one cannot purchase a 
genealogy! In these old houses, the portraits 
frown at a mere purchaser as a stranger; the 
ghosts refuse to leave their churchyard beds to 
welcome or disturb you, and the veiy tenants 
look upon you as an upstart and an interloper. 
We never see one of those old gateways, 
arched and massive, without imagining a haw- 
king party setting out. the gallant shouting 
below to the lady who leans from the mullion- 
ed window above; feathers flying, hawks 
screaming, and dogs yelping. We love old 
places like Burleigh, with the stcepled clock 
tower, the paved quadrangle, and pillared 
cloister : the broad staircases, the parapets and 

I bossy capitals, the fan ceiling, the l)nrtizans, 

I the waggon roof pierced and pendant, the hall 
gallery for the musicians, and the heavy cor- 
nices, are all dear to us as the old familiar things 

I of childhood. 

How we dwell on the feudal grandeur of the 

I deep embrasured windows, and the family pic- 
tures on the walls between the panelled and 
radiated ceilings, the broad heraldic panes, the 
rich fringed dais, and the stone figures that 
watch you from the fire-place ; and then we 
wander in dreams, following tip-toe after Bea- 
trice up broad hall stah-cases, with carved 
balustrades and pillared images, cupids, and 
vine wreaths, suits of armour, and sheaves of 
weapons, aod calm, watchful, ancestral pic- 
tures. The staircase winds round, carved like 

! a casket over head, past tapestried rooms and 
sounding corridors that echo even the velvet- 
footed maiden's step ; outside in the moon- 
light are the clipped yews black as coffin 
plumes, and' the fountain splashing silver on 
the sleeping flowers, broiid swards holy and 
calm in the glamour light and gilded vanes 
shifting and changing ever to catch the stray 
moombeams. The windows are shining like 
bright armour and the brook where the deer 
drink is breaking like melting metal over the 
pebbles. The lions that supjHjrt the great clock 
in the towef, I see, are staring stonily at the 
hour, and the two statues in the niches bide 
their time in the deep shadows that rest under 
the roof and projecting eaves. 

I step again into the hall, and see Lorenzo 
whispering to .Jessica, and the faded banners 
over head whisper too, and the griflins in the 
oriel say nothing, but the wind is piping in the 
great twisted chimney— stalks where the swal- 



low builds, and the moon glmts on the great 
stone globes of the gateway, where the roses 
cling and the turf is striped with the ominous 
shadow as of prison bars. 

But this is only one scene : there is another 
chamber, with Corinthian columns and Grecian 
statues, where grave Capulet sits reading, his 
cap and sword lying on the table, and there is 
a bullet hole near him in the panel, and there 
is a legend about it which I am not going to tell 
here. Well maj- he be proud when his genealogy 
stares at him from the windows and from the 
tapestiy, and is gilded on the ceiling, when his 
crest is round the weather mouldings, and over 
eveiy gateway, and on the tiles in the hall floor. 
How can he, English Capulet, forget that he is 
of a very ancient and princely lineage ? 

There are rushes on the floor, and the fire- 
brands rest on the wings of brass [lelicans; and 
there are old, dim mirrors on the wall, and 
oak buffets and carved screens, and the walls 
are panelled with his badge ; and there are 
stone seats round the room, and the door is 
huge and clamped, and the embrasures of im- 
mense thickness. Without, the deer are feeding 
in the sunlight, and the boys are running at 
the quintain, or trying their bows ; and there 
is a lady reading Plato at the window, where 
the rose struggles in. In the distance is a 
village of gable roofs and striped white walls ; 
and a wedding procession is passing out across 
the meadows: the bride also, and the favours, 
and the pipers, amd the fiddlers, are all coining 
to the Hall. — Shakspere's Enrjlund. 

London Underground Railway. 

The locomotives of the London Under- 
ground Railway are so arranged that the ex- 
haust steam may at will be turned into the 
water-tank instead of the chimney, and that 
the furnace may, at a moment's notice, be 
shut up air-tight. The road is not a continuous 
tunnel, but a series of alternate tunnels and 
open cuttings. In the open cutting, the en- 
gines are run as on any other road ; but as 
soon as a tunnel is reached, the exhaust is 
turned into the tank, the fire-box shut tight, 
and the engine run through by the accumulated 
! heat in the furnace and boiler. The cost of 
I this road was about $4,000,000 per mile.— 
I Franklin Jimrnid. 



Santonine— again. 

According to Prof. Frauceschi, santonine, 
the vegetable base of Artemiiia santonica, in 
itself white, when taken internally, causes ob- 
jects to appear tinged with yellow. He attri- 
butes this to the santonine imparting a yellow 
tint to the humors of the eye, having under- 
gone a chemical change of color from contact 
with the serum of the blood. 



Steel Billiard Balls. — Billiard balls are 
now frequently made of steel instead of ivory; 
they are verj' elastic, and not liable to crack 
like ivory balls. 



— Lactic acid has been employed in the 
Darmstadt Hospital by Dr. Weber for curing 
croup. It is found to have a remarkable 
power of dissolving . fibrinous exudations. 
Ten to twenty drops, in half an ounce of 
water, are thrown into the throat and passages 
by a spray apparatus, taking care to protect 
the face and eyes from the cauterizing effects 
of the vapor. The proportion of lactic acid 
is reduced as the cure progresses. 



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[Pebruaby, 



Horsford's Bread Preparation 

.Itiil i)//ifr tirliclt'x (if (iiir umii iifurt nve 
lire ki'pl ill xlitik mill siilil tn lln' triiile 
III/ till' fiilliiiri iiij finiis : 

New York City. 

Acker, Merrall & Condit, 132 Chambers Street. 

Bogle & Lyles, 83 Barclay Street. 

H. W. Bclfher & Co., 4l"\Varren Street. 

Martin Y. Bunn & Co., 335 Greenwich Street. 

Thomas P. Cooper, 1S2 South Street. 

E. M. Course, 324 Greenwich Street. 

Day, Hoaglanil & Stiger, .")+ Cortlandt Street. 

E:irle & Co.. !I7 Front Street. 

Garbutt, Griggs & Co., 1(;8 Chambers Street. 

E. C. Hazard, l!t2 Chambers Street. 

E. & K. Mead, Jr., & Co., 13 Coenties Slip. 

George A. Merwin & Co., 242 Washington St. 

Moore, Jenkins & Co., 22-1 Front Street. 

Moore & Wakefield, 41) Broadway. 

James Olwell & Co., 1«1 AVest Street. 

Potter & Williams, 218 Front Street. 

Robert Seaman. 117 West Street. 

Shewood & Van Name, 2.')4 Greenwich Street. 

H. K. Thnrber & Co., 173 Chambers Stieet. 

Henry Welsh, 321 Washington Street. 

Gardner G. Yvelin, 206 Fulton Street. 

Miscellaneous. 

Note.— Tile lolluwir.jr List i:i as large as we have 
space to print in this issue : 

M. Delano, Canastoto, N. Y. 

Wm. W. Davis & Co., Portsmouth. Va. 

James D.ivis, Terre Haute. Ind. 

.lohn F. Dunham, St. Louis, Mo. 

\V. H. Floyd & Co., St. Joseph. Mo. 

C. I. Hipley, Terre Haute, Ind. 

I. G. Muslin &Co., Aledo, 111. 

S. S. Middleton, Hobokeu, N. J. 

Turner & Bennell, Jersey City. 

C. Lawrence, Jersey City. 

Norton & Lidd, Jersey City. 

Palmer ifc Waterbury. Saratoga Springs. 

H. B. Ives & Son, Springfield, III. 

I. L. Ives & Son, Ogdensburgh, N. Y. 

Young & Son, Atlanta, 111. 

Alsdorf i& Dosclier, Brooklyn. N. Y. 

R. J. Owens. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Valentine & Bergen. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

R. M. Bishop & Co., Cincinnati. 

A. A. Colter & Co., Cincinnati. 
Smith & Curtis, Cleveland. 
Strong & Armstrong, Cleveland. 
Caliender & Co., BufPalo, N. Y. 
Butler, Earhart & Co., Columbus, Ohio. 
Williams & Co., Cliillicothe, Ohio. 
Fallis & Linton, Toledo, Ohio. 
Benson & Wood, Toledo, Ohio. 
Lippincott it Brownlee, Steubenville, Oliio. 
King & Owens, Cliicago, 111. 

Downer & Co., Chicago, 111. 
Fleek & Sherwood, Newark, Ohio. 
Montgomery & Warner, NewarK, Oliio. 

B. Trentman & Son, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
Browning & Sloan, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Severin, Schnull & Co., Indianapolis, Iiul. 
Delano >& Tripp, Troy, N. Y. 
Comstock Bros., Utica, N. Y. 

Adams, Rowley vSb Ney, Utica, N. Y. 
A. Ethridge & Co., Rome, N. Y. 

C. C. Loomis & Co., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Mathews & Browuson, Brighampton, N. Y. 
Lormore Bros. & Reid, Elmira, N. Y. 
John Y. Selover. Auburn, N.Y. 

A. A. Solomons & Co., Savannah, Ga. 
C. L. Gilbert, Savannah, Ga. 
Swarbrick & Co., New Orleans, La. 
T. H. Hincliinaii A: Sons, Detroit. Mich. 



' Warming and Ventilating. 

lv\cf)il ill I'lililic Schools, llall.s, and 
other crowdi'd aiiartiiiciits, liave we too 
mill', or too i)iiir/i vciitihitioii for liealtli, 
comfort, ami I'coiiomy. The reader will 
draw liis own cdiirliii^ions from tlie fol- 
lowing fads. 

Xearly half the coal Inirned in llot- 
Air Furnaces and Steam Heaters is con- 
.snmed in giving the cold air taken from 
withont. the temperature of that within. \ 
Thi.s coal is lost, for all the air entering 
a lionse must escape therefrom and carry 
its heat with it, which near the ceiling 
from whence it escapes is ordinarily from I 
75 to 80 degrees. 

A. J. Downing in a treatise on Warm- ' 
iiig and \'enti]atiiig, says: "No furnace 
is lit for warming and ventilating a dwell- 
ing house wliicli delivers the air warmer 
tliaii Iv'O degrees — because air may be' 
heated to that temperature witliout in 
the least impairing its salubrity, wliile 
if raised to 150 degrees or 180 degrees 
I iis is often the case, it is sure to become 
gaseous and inipurc"' 

Now if tile air be admitted at "^l de- 
grees, delivered at 130 degrees, and es- 
cape at '0 degrees, then just one-half 
the Coal is lost. 

Each adult jierson takes in and ex- 
hales from the lungs 500 cnliic feet of 
; air every ."'i hours. Perfect ventilation 
I consists in expelling this air from the 
! house as fast as exhaled, and supplying 
its place with pure air. 

A Hot Air Furnace burning 60 
; jiounds of coal a day, takes in at 20 de- 
grees, heats to 120 degrees and ex])els 
from I he bouse some ;5(J0,000 cubic feet 
of air. — aliout one hundred times more 
than is inhaled by an ordinary family. 
Now if this finds its way out through 
crevices of doors and windows, why pro- 
vide special means of. exit for one hund- 
redth, or fiftieth of this quantity? 

Again, any room in which 30 pounds 
of coal is burned in 2i hours, admits air 
enough for the respiration of 13 persons 
for the same length of time. There are 
probably few houses so nearly air-tight 
as to prevent tlie combustion of several 
times this quantity of fuel. And fur- 
ther, the air that supports combustion 
usually enters near the floor with a con- 
siderable (|uantity added thereto, for if a 
column of air 13 feet high, within a room, 
have a temperature of 50 degrees above 
that without, it will have a buoyant force 
of 24 of a i^ound to the square foot which 
will drive it out through crevices or other 
openings near the ceiling with a theoret- 
ical velocity of 350 feet a minute. 

The reiterated assertion that we re- 
quire more ventilation and, should have 
enormous openings for that purpose in 



our ceilings and roofs, is easily made, and 
of no value : but improvement, whether 
if come from more or less ventilation, 
can only be made by careful, laborious 
mathematical calculations based on all 
of the manv plivsical laws connected 
therewith. 

'frlllifll/. X. J. A. 



Almost every one lias observed the tiitooed 
lines encircling the limbs and tninks of orchard 
and other trees, consisting of little holes about 
the size of peas, drilled into the bark at near 
intervals. The books all tell us that these 
holes are made by woodpeckers for the pur- 
pose of reaching and dislodging the larvas of 
wood boring insects, which are to be found 
underneath the bark. Our friend Mr. J. G. 
Bell, the Ornithologist, of Piermont, informs 
us that this statement is incorrect, and that 
these holes are bored by the woodpecker not 
to obtain the grub already there, but with a 
purpose evincing even more sagacity on the 
part of the bird. He says that the above e.\- 
planation never satisfied him, as it seemed 
unreasonable that the insects sought for should 
be located in almost mathematical planes, and 
upijn the most vigorous and healthy trees, and 
he therefore made careful observations to de- 
termine the cause of the phenomena. Mr. 
Bell found that the woodpecker would attack 
a healthy orchard (generally an apple) tree and 
drill liole after hole in tlie trunk or limb, as 
rapidly as possible. He frequently inten-upted 
a bird at his work and could discover no signs 
of insect life in the wholly or partially com- 
pleted holes. When a bird had girdled a tree 
with one of these rings it /lew off and com 
menced on anotliertree. Closely watching the 
tree just abandoned Mr. Bell saw that sap 
quickly commenced to oze from the holes, and 
that the black ants (about a quarter of an inch 
in length) which infested eveiT tree were soon 
attracted by the sweet sap and congregated 
about the holes to feed upon it. iVfter a short 
interval, the woodpecker returned to the scene 
of his first labors and leisurely picked off these 
ants without the trouble of hunting for them. 
Several of these birds fl'ere shot and the ants 
which they had just eaten were found in tlieir 
crops. Tlie reason formerly assigned for this 
work of the woodpeckers indicated merely 
i.iHtinct, but Mr. Bell's explanation proves a 
reaioiiiiKj fa(ailty on the part of the industrious 
bird. 



From the same authority we learn an inter- 
esting fact relating to frogs which we have not 
seen in print. Mr. Bell says that while engaged 
in midwinter in deepening the bed of a shallow 
brook, he removed a large flat stone from be- 
neath the siu'face of the water, and found in 
the mud under the stone a number of frogs, 
who upon being released, at once entered a 
vigorous protest against any suspicion of their 
torindity by executing a frog-dance in the 
graceful and classical style of the Bliwk Crook. 
Closer examination disclosed the fact that the 
mouth of each of these frogs was sealed up by 
a smooth membrane or skin, which excluded 
water and probably air. Mr. Bell says that 
Professor Baird noticed this phenomenon some 
time ago. What purpose does this membrane 
serve 'f When does it first appear and when is 
it dis<Mrded ? Can any of our readers tell us? 



1870.] 



TABLE TALK, 



23 



Horsford's Bread Preparation. 

What is it for ? 

It is for " Rftising " Bread, Bolls, Bismiit, 
Waffles, Cnke.H, Diimpli/ir/s, eh:, etc., and takes 
the place of Yeast, Soda or Salseratus, Cream 
of Tartar, sour Milk or any other form of 
leaven. 

How does it difer from other forms of 
leaven or other "Baking Powders?" 

Essentially in this : that all other " raising " 
or leavening agents supply in themselves 
nothing which is nutritious or required by the 
human system ; Horsford's Bread Preparation 
does contain the elements of nutrition in such 
proportions and form as renders them immedi- 
ately assimilable. 

W/ty should ire vse itf 

Because it is manufactured only by the 
well-known Rumford Chemical Works of 
Providence, R. I., under the personal super- 
vision of Professor E. N. Horsford, of Har- 
vard University, and the purUy of the in- 
gredients can therefore be relied upon. 

Becenise the directions for its use are simple 
and easily understood. The proportions of 
Acid and Soda are not left to careless or igno- 
rant cooks. 

Because Bread, Biscuit — anj' fonn of far- 
inaceous food — made with this Preparation, 
may be eaten Hot as well as cold by Iiwedids 
and Dyspeptics, 

Because the nutritive value of flour is in- 
creased b}' the use of Prof. Horsford's inven- 
tion ten per cent. (See letter from Baron 
^Liebig to Prof. Horsford.) 

Because but a few moments time are re- 
quired to prepare any form of Bread for baking. 
The result is certain, and the bread always 
good. Climate, weather, temperature do not 
affect the result 

Because sweet and delicious Hot Biscuit, 
Rolls, &c., are made by the use of Horsford's 
Preparation, with flour, water, and salt only, — 
neither milk, butter, nor other shortening 
being necessary. 

Because it supplies to the human system 
the Phosphates which exist in the whole grain, 
but which are removed with the bran in the 
manufacture of fine floor. 

Because Horsford's Bread Preparation is 
the onlt) "Baking Powder" which is used, ap- 
proved, and publicly recommended by scientific 
men. Its use is almost universal among phy- 
sicians. 

Among those who use and have given Hors- 
ford's Bread Preparaiani their unqualified ap- 
proval, we are at liberty to mention : 

The Late Dr. VALENTINE MOTT, New York. 

Dr. VVILLARD PARKER « 

TheLateD! HORACE green.... v 

Dr. \VM, H. DWIXELLE " 

Dr. FORDYCE barker » 

Dr. JOHN H. GRISCOM " 

Dr. august JACOBI » 

Prof. CHAS. A. JOY, ('olumbia Col.. . •. 

Prof, C.F.CHANDLER.Columbia Col. » 

Dr. JOHN TORREY, Columbia Col. 

Prof. R. OGDEN DOREMUS 

Dr. WM. a. HAMMOND, Prof, of 
Diseases of the Mind and Nervous 
System, and of Clinical Medicine in 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
and late Surgeon General, U.S. Army " 

MASON C. WELD, (Chemist). Asso- 
ciate Editor American Asriculturist,. . » 

S. H. Vi'ALES, Editor Scientific Ameri- 
can, » 

J. B. LYMAN. AgriculturalEdi-wrN.Y. 
Tribune, and .\ssociate Editor "Hearth 
and Home," n 

ORANGE JUDD, Proprietor and Edi- 
tor American Agriculturist n 

D. D. T. MOORE, Proprietor and Edi- 
tor Moore's Rural New Yorker >i 

Rev.CRAMMOND KENNEDY, Asso- 
ciate Editor " Christian Union," " 

Dr. J. R. NICHOLS Bost., Mass. 

Dr.C.T. JACKSON, Mass. State Chem. 

Prof. J. C. BOOTH, of U. S. Mint Phila., Penn. 

Prof. SAMUEL H. DICKSON, Jeffer- 
son Medical College » 

Prof. C. S. GAUNT, M.D., •■ 

Prof. SAMUEL JACKSON, M.D.,Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania " 

Dk. A. P. WYLIE « Chester, S. C. 

Dr. THOMAS S. JONES Jackson, La. 

Dr. A. J. COMFORT Ft. Ripley, Minn. 

Horsford's Bread Preparation is put up in 
packages sulBcient for 25 pounds of flour. 

RETAIL PRICE (with Tin IVIeasure) 30cts. 

; WILSON, LOCKWOOD, EVERETT & CO., 

Genera, Agents, 

201 Fulton St., N. Y. Citv. ! 



Sunshine for Batchelors. 

— How much of the humor and poetiy which 
serve to lighten the cares of this plodding life 
are due to children. The most cynical person 
cannot fail at times to be struck with the un- 
conscious and original utterances of these little 
ones. We shall occasionally record such a\i- 
thentic specimens of quaint child-talk as fall 
in our way, and we shall be jileased to receive 
additions to our stock of this kind of literature. 

— One little girl we know of was listening 
on a Sunday afternoon to the scriptural account 
of the Crucifixion, which her mother read from 
the bible. The little one was highly wrought 
up by the tragic picture, and listened with such 
an earnest solemn face to all the affei ling de- 
tails, that her mother began to fear it would be 
too much for the sensibilities of her tender- 
hearted child. She read on however, and when 
she had finished the verse which speaks of tlie 
crucifixion of the two thieves on either side, 
the absorbed child gazing into her mothers 
face, cried out in a voice full of compassion — 
" did they icir/gle mamma ? '' 



— On a lovely June morning last summer we 
were in the. country, hard at work over our 
flower beds, and our little four-year-old girl 
came to see what we were about. The rich deep 
blue of the heavens, unobscured by a single 
cloud, soon caught her quick eye, and with a 
measured turn of her head she took in the 
whole glorious sweep. Drawing a long breath 
with delight she exclaimed — "what a beautiful, 
beautiful blue sky. Why papa, I should think 
it was God's Christmas.'" 



The following letter has been handed 
to us by Mr. George F. Wilson, the 
Treasurer of the Rumford Chemical 
Works, of Providence, 1\. I. It is from 
Peter Henden<(i)t, E.sq.. the Seedsman, 
Florist, and Agricultural A\riter: he 
needs no introductioit from us wliere 
ever an agricultural news])aper i.s taken, 
or agricultural book.s circulate. 

New York, October 20, 1868. 
To Mr. Geo. F. Wilson. 
' Dear Sir, — Last spring I purchased from 
I your office in New York one ton of your 
"Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
Lime," co.sting $60, and at the same time I 
bought a ton of No. 1 Peruvian Guano, 
costing $85, with a view to test the Superphos- 
phate against the Guano, by careful experi- 
ment. Accordingly, two acres of our richest 
market garden ground was measured off, and 
carefully ploughed. One acre Wiis sown witli 
the Guano, and the other with your Super 
phosphate, on the ploughed surface, then 
thoroughly harrowed in and sown whh beets 
and onions, equal quantities on each acre. 
The crops on both acres were unusually early 
and large, netting a clear profit of $500 per 
acre, (even at the low rates at which all early 
vegetables sold last summer in New York). 
There was no perceptiljle difference in the 
effects produced by the Guano and Superphos- 
phate on the crops of onions and beets; both 
were ertra fine. But the second crop {celery) 
now .■fhoirs the finest on the acre fertilised with 
your Superpho.fphalr. 

Very respectfully yours, 

PETER HENDERSON. 



— Another little child (also a girl) 6 years of 
age, was terribly afraid of rats. While sleep- 
ing with an older sister who was equally 
timid on the rat question, little Annie was 
awakened in the night liy a scratching and 
rustling in the room which she imiuediMtely 
referred to a r;it. She had no faith in the pro- 
tective power of her sister, and she was afraid 
to attract the attention of the dreaded enemy 
by screaming, but her mother-wit quickly came 
to her aid, and she called out in vociferous 
tones — "7iere pass.' puss' pass.' here's a rat!', 
Annie well knew there was no cat within hear, 
ing, but she thought the rat might not be so 
well posted I 

— This same little mischief once had a fav- 
orite kitten, which slept at night in a doll's 
cradle, on a miniature bed and pillow. One 
evening the pillow was mislaid, and she hunted 
long for it. At length she discovered the miss- 
ing article, and as she caught it up exclaimed 
— "why here's that cat-er-pillar'" 

— Said a male advocate of woman's rights : 
" When I am in a crowded car, and a lady 
comes in, I think it is the duty of some man to 
get up and give her his seat. I look around the 
car to see if any man in the crowd looks like 
making a move in that direction, iind when I 
see them all keep their seats, I hide my face 
behind my newspaper, and blush for my sex. ' 

— An afilicted husband was returning from 
the funeral of his wife, when a friend asked 
him how he was. "Well," said he, patheti- 
cally, "I think I feel better for that little 
walk." 



The ue.xt letter on the same subject, 
was written to JnJiii Knn.r, Esrj.. the 
"Small Fruit" Grower, by Ciil. Miisaii ('. 
Weld, of New York, well known as an 
Agricultural Chemi.st. and A.-^.sociate 
Editor of the '•American Agriculturist." 

New York, .June 7th. ^Xi\'.t. 
To John Knox, Esq., PiM-iburg, Pa. 

Dear Sir,— My friend Mr. Potter, of Wil- 
son, Lockwood, Everett & C^o. , of New York, 
tells me you have made inquiry concerning 
"Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
Lime," and asks if I will give you my opinion 
of it. / buy it for my own use, knowing the 
article and having made comparative tests with 
it last year, in which it stood better than any 
other Superphosphate that I tried, save one. 
and fully equal, if not better than that one on 
certain crops. I am personally acipiainted 
with the members of the firm of Wilson, Lock- 
wood, Everett & Co., and know that their re- 
presentations can be strictly relied upon. 

Yours truly, MASON C. WELD. 

A\ iLsoir.s Ammoniated Sui)eri)iios- 
phate of Lime. al)<)ve referred to, can be 
had of us direct, or through any of the 
agricultural .seed stores, in any c|uaiifit \. 
from 100 II )s. to l.otiO tons. 

Price. $<i() per 'l\ni. 
A pamphlet, tlescrijdive of tlie above 
fertilizer, sent free upon apjilication. 
Every ton warranted ennal to xiandurd. 

Wilson, Lock'wood, Everett & Co, , 

GENERAL AGENTS, 

201 Fulton St., N.Y. 



24 



TABLE TALK. 



[Febrttaey. 



INE W DEPOTS. 



In addition to our Agencies in the principal 
cities and towns of the WEST, for the greater 
convenience of the trade, we liave established 
Depnts for all our goods in Chicago, Cincinnati 
and St. Louis, as follows : 

CHICAGO, 

Messrs. KIIIG & OWEN, 250 & 252 South Water St. 

CINCINNATI, 

Messrs. R, M. ilSIIOP & CO., S5 and 87 Race Lt. 

ST. LOUIS 

Messrs. TEED. F. P.'.ZIEK & CO., 521 North 24 St. 
Orders for Horsford's Bread Preparation, 
Mumford Yeai<t Powders, ILmford's Cream of 
Tartar Substitute, &c., &c., will be received 
and filled at the above Depots, as well as by 
many other Agents, whose names are given 
elsewhere, without the delay of shipment from 
New York. Buyers of our goods m small 
quantities will always sai-e iiuiney, as well as 
time, by ordering of our nearest Agent. 

Wilson, Lockwood, Everett k Co. 

201 FuUonSt., N.Y. 



Bleaching of Suoae. — It has been found 
by experiment that a stream of electricity from 
a powerful electro-magnetic machine, driven 
through a solution of brown unrefined sugar> 
will bleach it. electricity being thus made to 
perform the function of charcoal. One of 
Wilde's electro-maguetic machines, driven by 
a 15-horse-power engine, has been set up for 
this object in a sugar refinery in Whitechapel. 



Reproddotion of Bones by the Marrow 
OF Bones- — M. Gonjon has won the prize of 
500 francs, granted by the French Acadeni_v 
of Sciences, for demonstrating that the marrow 
of bones has the same power of reproducing 
bony substance as the periosteum ; tliat en- 
grafted elsewhere in the body it possesses the 
extraordinary' quality of reproducing bone, as 
the author showed in a rabbit in which bone 
had been made to grow under the skin by the 
transplantation of some of the animal's m'ar- 
row ! — Medical Record. 

"Honor where Honor is Dde.'' — The 
" principal performers" in Mr. Charles Kean's 
Tempest having been called for by the audience, 
there was an immediate rush of the hundred- 
and-forty carpenters from behind the scenes. 



^ Use John Dwight & Co.'s 

BEST-SALAERATUS, 
or their Super Carb. Soda. 

No others are equal to these for cooking 
purposes. Established 1846. 

JOHN DWIGHT & CO., 

I ) Old Slip, New York. 

BURNET & LEONARD, 

Steam Boiler Manufacturers 

446 to 452 Ogden Street, Newark, N. J. 

M.\KI\K AND ST.\TIONAHY BOILEKS, 

OIL .STILLS, WATER TANKS, 

VARNTSII KETTLES. 

ST^AM RENDERING TANKS 
for Lard, Tallow and Grease. 

OUK 

IMPROVED HEA-TTKRlsj 

for Steam Engines always on hand. 

out: Sl'KCIAl.lTV IS 

First-Class Work at less than New York Prices. 



HORSFORD'S 

Acid Phosphate, 

(MEDICINAL.; 

fve pared, by the 

RIMFOIW CHEMICAL WORKS, 

OF 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

L'NDg,!: THS DIFP.CTION OF 

PrOFESSOR E. X. HORSFOKD. 

I.ate H'liiiford Pnfrsuftr at Harvard Uiiivfrutt^ 
Cambritltse, Mass. 



WATERMAN'S 



Also known as tlie 



-Mrs. E. C. Stanton, while on the cars near CAST IRON BAKE-PANS 
Jacksonville, 111, was approached by a young ^***' * **WVA1 m**mm***4XW, 

gentleman with a head about the size of an 
apple, who, with a pompous air, said — "Mrs. 
Stanton, I believe ? ' " That is my name," re- 
plied the lady. "I heard your lecture last 
night ; I am not yet prepared for Womjxn's 
Suffi'age!" " Indeed !" said Mrs. Stanton, "I 
fear you will block the wheels of progress for 
a centmy.' 



The value of preparations of acid phosphates 
as therapeutic agents is in keeping with well- 
known chemical principles. ! 

So far as experience goes, Horsford's Acid 
Phosphate seems to act as if it were nutriment ' 
to the cerebral and nervous systems, restoring j 
to their normal action secretory organs that 
have been deranged, giving vigor where there 
has been debility, and renewed strength where 
there has been exhaustion. 

It has been found especially serciceable iu.dys 
pepsia and disorders incident thereto : in uri_ 
nary difficulties, proceeding from paralysis of the 
bladder or sphincter, and is kitoiru to be useful 
ill, tendencies to gravel aud spermatorrha; in 
cerebral and spinal fuirnlysix, mental er/iauslion, ! 
wakefulness, hysteria, and other nervous affec- 
tions. 

Each fluid drachm contains ; 

.032 of a grain of metallic iron, in the form 
of oxide combined as an acid phosphate. 

1.100 of uncombined, potential triliasic i)hos- 
phoric acid, mixed with tribasic phos- 
phoric acid combined as monobasic phos- 
phate of lime, pota.'-'sa, magnesia and 
ammonia. 

It contains no pyrophosphate, or meta phos- 
phate of any base whatever. 

Most excellent results have attended its ad 
ministration for the prostration and nervous 
symptoms following Sunstroke. 

Physicians desiring to examine and test this | 
remedy, ^'e requested to apjily by letter, or i 
otherwise,'to f'(P undersigned. — 

Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co., j 

Genseal Agents, ' 

201 Fulton St., N.Y. i 



— Mr. Otis Clapp propounded on Monday 
evening, in a lecture at Boston, the query: 
" What can be done to check the growth of 
the criminal and perishing classes?'' An in- 
fallible means to this end, as tested in Great 
Britain and America, consists in giving them 
gin during their early infancy. 



— " Red as a Ro.se is She," is the title of a 
recent novel. Soon we shall have "Blue as a 
Cotton Umbrella is He. " 

*^^* 

— A young lady, going into a barrack-room 
at Fort George, saw an officer toasting a slice 
of bread on the point of his sword, upon 
which she exclaimed, " I think, sir, you have 
got the staff of life at the point of death." 



— At a Teachers' Institute in Ohio, recently, 
a lady teacher was given the word hazardous 
to spell and define, and did it in this style : 
"H-a-z, haz, a-r-d, hazard, e-double-s, ess, 
hazardess — a fenvale hazard." 

— Mr. Choate was arguing a case Ijefore a 
full bench of the Svipreme Court of Massachu- 
setts, when, wishing to compliment Judge 
Shaw, he exclaimed : ""SXHien I look upon the 
venenible Chief Justice, I am like a Hindoo 
before his idol— I know that he is ugly, but I 
feel that he is very great.' 

♦^. 

— What is the difference between a man 
paralyzed with fear and a leopard's tail? One 
is rooted to the spot and the other is spotted to 
the root. •' 



While & Graham Rolls, Biscuit, Corn 
Calces, Etc , Etc. 

They Bake more QuicUy than Tin or Sheet Iron. 

Tliey produce Ligftter llrsi'uA*, ctfke, Etc. 

They do not wear out. 

They give more Crust. 

They do not Bum the Dough. 

Much Time is Saved, a.~^ it is not necessary to Mouid or 

5/m/t-the Dough. 
They are recommended as THE BEST by the Mauu 

facturers of Hors/oi-iV s Bread Prepataiion. 

Manufactured and sold to the trade by 
RUSSELL & ERWIN MANUFACTURING CO. 

45 & 47 Chambers Steet, New York City. 

The Original and only Genuine 

LIEBIG'S 

Extract of Meat, 

IS MADE BT TUE 

LIEBIG EXTRACT OF MEAT CO., 

And lilts file Sifi natures iif Baron Lic- 

biij. the inrcnfur, and of Ma.r Petfen- 

i-offer, (lelegaic, on rreri/ Jar, witJt- 

'ovt H'liirh none ran he f/e)niine. 
It is the only article that received GOLD 
MEDALS AT PARIS I8C.7. HAVRE 1808, and 
THE GRAND DIPLOMA (superior to the 
Gold Medal), at AMSTERDAM isciit. 

It is invaluable as Food, especially for those 
who need strengthening diet. It secures econ- 
omy in housekeeeping, and excellence in 
cookery, while saving time, trouble, fuel and 
healt/i. It is admirably adapted to the use of 
Travelers' and Hunters", and on shipboard and 
on farms and plantations where fi'esh meat 
cannot be had for daily use. It keeps foryears 
in any climate. 

Be particular to ask for LIEBIG'S COM 
PAJSTY'S extract, and 

BEWARE OF BIITATIONS. 
J. MIL HA IPS SONS, 
183 Broadway. N. Y., 

SOLE AGENTS. 



J. W. Pratt, Printer, 76 i'ulton Street, N. Y. 



TABLE TALK. 

"A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP." 



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The Editor alone is respoHsiiUe /or the opinions^ state- 
ments, and ali other matter appearing in this Paper. 

Ail comwjiuications, fl/ whatever nature, /or Table 
Talk must be addressed to 

CHAS. J. EVERETT, Editor, 

201 Fultnn Street, N'ew York City 



Bread Before Votes. 

Tlieiv is one pltase of •■ woniairs 
riglits" wliicli i.s sadly iieglt'cted, eveu 
by those who have untlertaken the special 
mission of redressing the wrougs of 
women, and that is the right to support 
herself. Who of its do not know women, 
without hiishauds or male relatives upon 
whom they can depend for support, who 
have tastes and feelings as -imperious 
and rclined as our own, Init having a 
knowledge of no occupation, by rea- 
son of sheer poverty are compelled to 
find some means of earning their own 
living ? Have we not all too many such 
applicants, tearfully seeking our "ad- 
vice," and for whom we sympathetically 



I rack our brains in vain ? Don't dismiss 
the disagreeable subject with ii sigh, and 
a hoj)eless exclamation of " poor crea- 
' tures ;'' for, dear reader, in the ups and 
downs of this driving, shifting, restless 
life, it is not impossible that your wife 
: or daughter may 3'et droji into the ranks 
of these " poor creatures," and it may be 
but selfish prudence on your ]>art, to in- 
quire now what prospect ytmrdear ones 
would have in such case, of kee])ing the 
wolf from the door. 

The loss of property. the sudden change 
for the worse in worldly j^osition, the 
descent from the brown-stone-frout to 
the retiring red brick house on the side 
street, are all of too common occurrence 
to excite much surprise, or, alas, to elicit 
very profound sympathy. The wealthy 
merchant of to-day, who is overtaken liy 
pecuniary misfortune, sinks rapidly away 
from the sight and memory of his former 
associates, who certainly manifest a de- 
gree of resignation under the afHictiou 
sufficient for both parties. But too of- 
ten business failure is followed by broken 
health; and death — that inexorable })ut 
easily satisiied creditor — gives a receipt 
iu full. Then the scanty savings from 
the wreck are gathered carefully tip. and 
the stricken widow looks wearily around 
at her dependent children and asks her- 
self "'what shall I do to keep my little 
ones together; what «oi I do ? " Per- 
haps there are grown up daughters, and 
the problem becomes even more difficult. 
■• One will teach music." But the ranks 
are already overflowing, and the number 
exceeds that of the pupils. A school is 
thought of, but poor tmcher, poor pay; 
the experiment fails and is soon aban- 
doned. One by one the arcomplixhments 
are found to be a jjoor dependence for 
support, and generally, all attempts at 
a livelihood end in the needle. 

If you would apjjreciate the detiuition 
of what Dr. Johnson called "a good 
hater," just ask a woman who gets her 
living by sewing how she feels toward 
her needle. And a great many women 
who sew only for their own families have 
quite its vindictive feelings toward that 
useful but remorseless little instrument. 
In that direction •• the path of glory leads 
Init to tlie grave." 



1 There is a lesson in this oft told tale 
which should be studied by both men 
and women, and which, paradoxically, 
can only be of use to those who do not 
yet need it. And it is this: first, new 
avenues of employment for women, in 
old or new occupations, must be dis- 
covered and kept open ; and. secondly, 
girls must be so trained while young, 
that, if necessary, they may avail them- 
selves of these opportunities. "This is 
chimerical and impracticable." is it, oh I 
man of ease ? Then the sooner we go 
about the work and get it into practical 
shape the better. On the one hand in- 
dependence, health of mind, morals and 
body, and virtue; on the other, depend- 
ence, poverty, starvation and death — or 
the brothel. 

Shake your head, hide; it ostrich-like, 
and stop your ears ! But those ^\ho 
have marked the steps in the fatal de- 
scent, worn by thousands of weary, un- 
willing feet, know the end — death or 
worse. This is the alternative presented 
to-day to thousands of women,_who are 
dependent upon the favor of man for 
employment at all, and who have hopes 
as soaring, characters ;ts worthy, and 
hearts as pure as your home-treasures 
or mine, good friend. 

What shall be done for this most needy, 
most helpless, but thoroughly deserving 
class? What lia>^ been done is but a 
dro]) in the ocean. The ajipeals for 
work and Ijread increase daily, hourly. 

Are tlie busy brains and energetic 
hands of thousands of pitying men and 
women, burning with a desire to do 
good, useless for the' defence and salva- 
tion of this unfortunate class ? Let us 
\vd\c j)rarfic(il siiyr/es/ions from any who 
are interested, and who recognize the 
claims of humanity even under the for- 
bidding garb of iiovertv. 



Unscrupulous Generosity. 

One of the most remarkable instances 
of reckless generosity that has ever been 
brougiit to light, has its origin strangely 
enough, in a transaction growing out of 
politics, in which responsible and well- 
to-do citizens deliberately risked their 
property (and that of their friends) for 



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[March, 



the benefit of an unfortunate neighbor 
and his family. In 1865, Mr. James 
O'Neill was elected Surrofjafe, for the 
term of five years, of Hudson Count}' 
New Jersey, which county includes Jer- 
sey City, Hobokeu and other thriving 
and wealthy towns. For a long time it 
has been evident, that owing to mental 
aberration, or some similar cause, Mr. 
O'Neill was totally unfit to discharge 
his official duties, and that the work of 
his important office was entrusted to and 
administered by a small boy, who was, 
however, intelligent enough to generally 
select the proper blanks, and make some 
disposition of the voluminous business 
of the office, whether riglit or wrong. 
But in the face of these facts, this poor 
demented gentleman was last fall ac- 
tually re-elected to tlie office for a second 
term of five years. Last month, Mr- 
O'Neill's derangement assumed a foi-m 
more threatening to the personal safety 
of his friends, and he was removed to 
the State Lunatic Asylum at Trenton, 
where he died on the 35th of Fel)raary. 
The reason given for Mr. O'Neill's re- 
nomination by his political friends — 
who were perfectly well aware of his un- 
fortunate mental condition — was that 
he and__liis family were dependent on the 
emoluments of the office. A most hu- 
mane and benevolent motive, abstractly 
considered, but when the interests of 
the widows and orphans of the dead and 
dying are taken into account, the re- 
election of Mr. O'Neill becomes an inde- 
fensible and unscrupulous crime. 

The interests jeopardized were im- 
mense. Those who knew of his condi- 
tion and who were responsible for his 
continuance in office, being foi'ewarned, 
could protect themselves in any dealings 
they might have with the Surrogate, but 
very many other persons were ignorant 
of Mr. O'Neill's derangement, and were 
therefore at the mercy nf liis uiiiladniin- 
istration. 

Having business at tins office several 
months before the late Surrogate's re- 
election, we had inn]ilc evidence of tlie 
loose and dangerous manner in which 
the affairs of tile office were administered 
— or rather bungled. Viilualile papei's 
were mislaid or lost; others were made 
out wrong, and the poor, irresponsible 
Surrogate's signature affixed to whatever 
his boy saw fit to lay before him. We 
believe the little fellow was conscientious, 
and, for a boy, careful in what he did, 
but in matters affecting the settlement 
of important estates, one prefers to be 
in more experienced hands. 

When the mental condition of Mr. 
O'Neill was first ascertained, it was 

))l;iinh the illlty of the ( 'liaueellol' of llie 



state to" remove him forthwith. But to 
have hesitated in such removal after 
there-election, was, on the part of the 
Chancellor, a weakness deserving the 
severest cwnsure. 

With the deepest compassion for tin- 
sad fate of the late Surrogate and liis 
bereaved family, we yet feel that the in- 
terests'^and rights of the community 
have been shamefully trifled with, and 
the inhal)itants of Hudson County may 
consider themselves peculiarly favored, 
if the evil done ended with the life of 
the innocent but unfortunate Surrogate, 



We have an announcement to make 
to our readers to-day which constitutes 
the first unpleasant duty devolving upon 
us in connection with the publication of 
our paper. With this number. Table 
Talk will be discontinued, or at least 
suspended for the ]iresent. 

It is with sincere regret that we make 
this statement. Oureditorial i-elations 
with our readers have been exceedingly 
pleasant and encouraging, and if the 
ultimate pecuniary success of the paper 
was our sole aim, we should have no 
reason for ceasing to issue it. 

But the whole labor of preparation of 
Table Talk has rested upon a single 
member of our firm, and an approaching 
change in his duties will render it im- 
possible for him to give to the paper 
that time iind thought necessary to 
success. 



made to the buildings of the Biimfonl 
Chemical Works, but the demand for 
their products has this Spring again 
outstripped their facilities for supply, 
and new buildings and machinery are 
now being erected as fast as men and 
money can complete them. Our cus- 
tomers have exhibited some impatience 
under the delay in filling their orders, 
but they may rest assured that if capital 
and energy can furnish the goods here- 
after as fast as they are ordered, they 
will not long have occasion for complaint. 
If a like imperative demand should 
ever arise for the re-issue of our little 
bantling — Table Talk— it may possibly 
again be published, and in that event its 
readers may continue to hear from their 
friend, The Editor. 



One of Woman's Wrongs. 

The free discussion of the questions 
at issue in the late Students' outrages at 
Bellevue Hospital has already borne 
good fruit. Hidden evils attendant up- 
on clinical or bedside instruction, have 
lieen dragged to the surface and exposed 
to the gaze and criticism of the public. 
Among the most objectionable featui'es 
of our hospital practice is that of the 
immodest, unnecessary and unfeeling 
exposure of female patients to the eyes 
of scoffing students at the clinical lec- 
tures. That such ex])osnre is made, 
often unnecessarily, and in opposition 
to the wishes and pleadings of the hu- 



The interests of the partners in the miliated patient, can not be denied, 
house of Wilson, Lockwood, Everett 



&• Co, remains the same, but that mem- 
ber of the firm who has acted as the 
Editor of this paper, will be occupied 
hereafter in a different department of 
the business, connected with the manu- 



An extreme case of this luiture was 
lately detailed in the CJirisfiaii Union, 
and in the Tribune of March 5th, The 
scene was witnessed in one of our hosi)i- 
tals, and is described by a laMy,— ,c wife 
;ind mother. We do not lielieve that 



facture of some of the products dealt in any unprofessional man can read that 

simple tale without feeling every nerve 



by the firm. 

The success attending the efforts of 
our firm during the past year, for the 
thorough introduction of the. specialties 
dealt in by us has been very gratifying. 
But this success is not solely the reward 
of well directed efforts ; it is largely 
owing to the intrinsic merit of the 
articles themselves. They are manu- 
factured with an intelligent appreciation 
of great sanilanj. domestic and atjricitl- 
tiiral wants, by able and scientific chem- 
ists ; and so rigidly has the standard ex- 
cellence of all these products, manufac- 
tured by Professor Ilorsford and Mr. ! of the pn 
Geo. F, Wilson been maintained for the 
past ten years, that the stamp of the 
" Rumford Chemical Works" is to-day 
as sure a sign of pure and standard 
quality as the IT, S. Assay-mark upon a 
bar of silver or gold. ^ 

LmsI veav iiniiort;int iiilditions were 



thrill with righteous indignation, and 
every muscle harden into iron, for the 
chastisement of the inhuman wretch, 
who thus insulted all womanliood iu the 
person of one poor, helpless girl. With 
sorrow and shame we declare that this 
is not an isolated case. Even now we 
recall the sickening memory of a more 
oToss and liarbarous outrage than this, 
of a similar character, but one unfit in 
its details for print. It is useless to .say 
that these are professi(n\al matters, not 
understood by the public, and are none 
ic's business. It is the pub- 
lic's business. Such an insult offered 
to a defenceless woman is an appeal to 
the honor of every true man for protec- 
tion and punishment. We rejoice to see 
that physicians and medical journals are 
aroused upon the subject of this and 
kindred evils, and we iioini «ith satis- 



1870. J 



TABLE TALK. 



27 



faction to an editorial in the Medical 
Gazette (N. Y.), of March oth, contain- 
ing a frank admission of tlie abuse of 
clinical privileges in the useless expo- 
sure of female patients, and a recom- 
mendation that such practices be here- 
after discarded. The article referred to 
characterizes such public exposiire as 
" uselefis" as " needless and demuraliz- 
ing," . . . "the agony of which, to 
the patient is not compensated for by any 
adequate advantage to the class." 

These declarations, coming from such 
men as Dr. Peters and Dr. Carroll, are 
significant, and will be heeded by the 
professio?!. We trust that the efforts of 
these gentlemen in initiating a reform 
will be as energetic as their candor is 
honorable. 



No More Income Tax. 

It is pretty well understood that the 
present assessment of Income Tax is 
upon incomes for the year 1869, and 
that no law now exists by which this 
obnoxious tax can be assessed hereafter. 
The opposition of the whole nation to 
any form of tax upon individual in- 
comes is so unanimous, and .so well 
founded, that we doubt whether such a 
tax will ever again be authorized by 
Congress. In its best form, and with 
the most lenient administration, it is 
exceedingly rejmlsive to American citi- 
zens, but administered as it has been, 
witliout discretion or method, and under 
tile harshest and most arbitrary interjire- 
tations of the law l)y a thick-skulled 
commissioner, it has become so offensive 
that even our best citizens seem deter- 
mined ti_) evade or resist it. In the face 
of this universal ]>ublic sentiment. In- 
ternal Revenue Commis.sioner Delano, 
with the scornful eontemijt of a petty 
despot for the wishes of his subjects, 
jiroclaims that He " is opj)osed to the 
abolitiou or i-eductiou of the Income 
Tax." Very likely ! He will undoubt- 
edly mourn the loss of such a powerful 
agency for annoying good citizens, who 
have no ajipeal from his unjust and out- 
rageous decrees, but he will get little 
sympathy in his mortification, save from 
his army of prying assessors, who 
thus lose a potent weapon for extortion 
and black -mail. 

The most offensive feature of this tax 
is that it gives to many iiTcsjJonsible, 
rude and utterly untrustworthy assessors, 
the privilege of prying into every per- 
son's private affairs, and not unfre- 
quently the information thus acquired 
is turned to i)rivate account. Gentle- 
men are often subjected to the most 
severe and unjustifiable cross-examina- 
tion as t(t their private and fan||l. 



affairs, and are compelled to answer 
questions so impertinent and unwarrant- 
able, that only the oflHcial character of 
the inquisitor shields him from summary 
punishmerit. It is true that there are 
excejjtions, and that some assessors re- 
tain their humanity and good manners 
even when serving under Commissioner 
Delano. But these exceptions are rarely 
met with in our cities ; they must be 
looked for in the rural districts, where 
this important office often falls into the 
hands of gentlemen, whatever may be 
their station in life. 

As if to test the people's endurance of 
official arrogance and stupidity to the 
last degree, the income lists and returns 
were at one time (but under another 
commissioner) thrown open to the pub- 
lic, and were actually given to the news- 
paper press for publication. This was 
one of the greatest insults ever offered 
to a community, and our children will 
read of it in future years with amaze- 
ment at the patience with which we sub- 
mitted to such an outrage. 

The Income Tax has aroused more 
disloyal and vindictive feeling, has made 
more enemies against the Government 
and administration, and has been the 
cause of more perjury and falsehood 
than all other methods of taxation de- 
vised by Congress. It now should be 
fully understood by every one that this 
odious tax is hereafter entirely unneces- 
sary. 

During the fiscal year ending June 
30, 180 :, the total receipts of the U. S. 
Government were as follows : 

Intermil Revenue i20(;,027,.')37 43 

Customs 17(i,4l7,siO 8« 

Otlier sources Cexclud- 
ing loaus) 48,l.S8,(i61 DO 



Total 1490,034,010 27 

Of tbis sum there w;is derived from tax 
upon individual incomes $27,417,957, 
being about A'rr' and one-half per cent. oS 
the total amount. 

For the fiscal year ending .Tune .30, 
1868, the total receipts were from 

luternal Revenue $191,087,,5e9 41 

Customs 1G4,4G4,,")!)9 50 

Other sources (exclud- 
ing cans) 50,085,894 35 



Total $405,638,083 32 

Of this sum there was derived from 
tax ujjon individual incomes $2o,.390,370, 
being less than six per cent, of the total 
amount. 

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1869, the total receipts were from 

Internal Revenue |158,356,460 8H 

Customs 180,048,426 63 

Otlier sources (exclud- 
cluding loan) 32, 588, 859 72 



Total $370,943,747 21 



Of this amount, the whole sum to be 
collected for tax upon individual in- 
comes, according to the estimate of 
Commissioner Delano, was 126,000,000, 
equal to seven jjer cent, of the whole sum. 

These figures are taken from the offi- 
cial Finance Beport of the U. S'., just 
published, and the statement of the re- 
ceipts from Income Tax, which for some 
reason has been continually over-stated 
by the press, is from Commissioner De- 
lano's Report. 

Now from March 1, 1869, to March 1, 
1870, the Public Debt was reduced by 
the sum of $87,134,782 34, or, to state it 
differently, the siirplus income of the 
Government for the year 1869 was nearly 
equal to the collections of the tax on in- 
dividual incomes for three and one-half 
years ! We have no comment to make 
on these figures; they tell their own 
story. But at the risk of tiring our non- 
statistical readers, we Avill add the figures 
of income to the Government for the 
year ending June 30, 1869, from some 
other principal sources of Internal Re- 
venue, which were as follows: 

Spirits $4.5,026,402 

Tohicco 23,430,708 

StLUiipf 10,420,710 

'I'he striking disjiarity between the 
trifling jjercentage of Government in- 
come derived from this very objection- 
able tax, and the intense irritation oc- 
casioned by its continuance, will be ap- 
parent to all. 

Let our representatives in Congress 
be instructed that the people will not 
again tolerate the infliction of this un- 
po])ular. iippressive, detested Inroine Tax. 

The following communication from 
Professor Eug. W. Hilgard, the dis- 
tinguished MississijDpi State Geologist, 
and professor of Chemistry in the Uni- 
versity of Mississijipi, at Oxford, will be 
read with interest and entire confidence 
in its statements, by all who know Prof. 
Hilgard either personally or by reputa- 
tion. The commendation of such men 
of science as Prof. Hilgard, Prof. Joy, 
of Columbia College, Prof Samuel Jack- 
son, of University of Pennsylvania, Prof 
Liebig, of Germany, and other.s, whose 
voluntary testimonials we have hereto- 
fore published, are more valued by Prof. 
Horsford the inventor of this wonderful 
'• Bread Preparation," than any pecuni- 
ary benefit which may po.ssibly accrue to 
him : 

Univeksity of Mississippi. 
If, as Prof. Liebig remarl«, " Horsford's 
Baking Powder constitutes one of the weighti- 
est and most beneficent inventions of recent 
times," this is most especially true for this 
country, where the leavened bread universally 
used in Europe is so commonly replaced by 



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TABLE TALK. 



[March, 



hastily-made biscuits raised, or attempted to be 
raised, by sod;i or ''yeast powders;" tlius in- 
troducing ingredients foreign to the proper 
substance of the food, whose injurious effects 
upon digestion and general health manifest 
themselves in the alarming prevalence of 
" dyspepsia." From a scientilic point of view, 
as well as from that of experience, I most 
earnestly recommend this preparation to all 
who, while desirous of avoiding the trouble 
and uncertainly attending the use of yeast 
would enjoy tlie advantage and luxurj' of first 
rate light bread. All those habitually using 
soda for buscuits, muffins, batter-cakes, etc., 
will find in it a .substitvite which, not only ren. 
ders these articles of food more nutritious and 
healthy, but also more agreeable to the taste, 
BUG. W. HILGARD, 

State Geologint, etc. 



Methods of Bread Raising. 

BY PROF. EODNF.Y WELrll. 

The folU)wing essay was writteu for 
the Prnirie Farmer Annual, published 
in Chicago. Upon reading it we found 
80 mucli correct and valuable scientific 
information, so simply and cleaiij' ex- 
pressed, tliat we obtained permission 
from the pul)lishe.s to re-2)rint it. For 
want of space we are compelled to (jinit 
some portions of the original treatise, 
but we presumi^ the article can be ob- 
tained entire, from the publishers. 

Professor Welch, the author, is very 
favorably kmnvn at the East as well as 
in the AYest, for his scientific attain- 
ments. He is now the lecturer on 
Chemistry at tlie Halinemunn 3Iedical 
College of Chicago, and is also an editor 
of the Prairie/ Farmer : 

Since the days of the unleavened bread of the 
ancient Jews, a great number of methods have 
been resorted to for the purpose of giving to 
the loaf of wheaten bread an agreeable degree 
of lightness or porosity. Independent of the 
fact that such bread is much easier to masticate, 
this lightening of the loaf seems necessary to 
adapt it to the requirements of digestion. The 
fluids in the stomach, by means of which the 
food is dissolved, act upon the surfaces they 
are brought in contact with; it is plain, then, 
that the larger the amount of surface we pre- 
sent to their action, the easier and quicker the 
digestion will be accomplished. A large amount 
of surface is produced by giving to the mass of 
dough the peculiar cellular structure which is 
found in raised or light bread. Through such 
a mass the fluids may permeate veiy readily 
and thus the digesting process will be greatly 
facilitated. 

The substance in the flour that is relied on 
for forming cells or cavities, is the gluten. 
This may be separated from the starch, which 
is the other principal ingredient of wheat flour, 
by stretching over a tumbler a piece of course 
cloth and stirring upon it some flour on which 
water is constantly poured. The starch wil] 
pass through the cloth and become mixed with 
the water but not dissolved by it. The gluten 
will remain behind. On examination it will 
be found to be of slightly darker color than the 
starch, and be so tenacious that it can be drawn 
out into long threads. Flour that is deficient 
in gluten will not be porous, as the starch wiU 



prevent the gas from passing through it, not 
having sufficient tenacity to retain it. 

Carbonic acid is tlie gas ordinarily employed 
1 to distend the vesciclcs formed from tlie gluten. 
Common air is not a(lai)ted to the purpose, as 
it is liable to cause the bread to become sour ; 
while ammonia, as set free from the carbunate, 
is liable to impart to the bread an offensive 
taste and smell. Were it not for this disad- 
vantage, carbonate of ammonia would be the 
cheapest substance for bread raising, as both 
the ingredients of the compound become gas- 
eous at the temjierature required to bake bread. 

Carbonic acid gas may be produced for bread 
raising in two ways : by the action of fermen- 
tation on the starch of the flour, and by setting 
it free from chemical substances with which 
it is combined. The first of these methods is 
the one that has been longest in use and which 
is generally employed. Leaven, which is sim- 
ply a piece of sour dough, left from some pre- 
vious baking, was the means used by the an- 
cients for producing fermentation. Almost 
any substance which contains sugar and a 
sufficient amount of nitrogenous matter, such 
as gluten, will pass into a state of fermentation 
without any exciter of fermentation, if it is 
moistened and exposed to a suitable degree 
of heat. But the operation may be greatly 
hastened by adding to the materials an amount 
of yeast, which is a species of microscopic 
vegetation spontaneously developed in the or- 
gans of certain plants. This yeast jilant not 
only produces a decomposition of sugar, but it 
causes the starch to change into sugar previous 
to its decomposition, and also occasions thg 
production of an immense amount of additional 
yeast. 

If yeast is not checked in its working it will 
produce the decomposition of all the sugar and 
starch which is contained in the flour ; but 
either the dryness of the baked loaf or the heat 
which is required to bake it, is sufficient to stop 
its growth. 

The first action of yeast on ttour is to change 
the starch it contains into sugar ; this sugar is 
then decomposed into alcohol, water and car- 
bonic acid. Part of the alcohol is retained in 
the bread, giving it an agreeable, sweetish fla- 
vor, but most of it, from its easy volatility, 
passes into the oven and is lost. The carbonic 
acid that is produced swells the mass to a con- 
siderable extent liefore it is put into the oven, 
but the heat required for baking causes it to 
expand and distends the cavities in which ii is 
inclosed. The great object of Kneeding the 
dough is to distribute the gas more evenly 
through the mass, otherwise the cavities which 
contain it would be too large and unequally 
distributed. 

The disadvantages attending the use of yeast 
for raising bread, are mainly these : The diffi- 
culty of obtaining good active yeast in the 
country at all times, and in large towns during 
the winter, since a low degree of cold destroys 
the life of the plant; the uncertainty of the 
action of the yeast, for it is a fact known to 
every housewife that, scarcely two batches of 
bread a year, prepared as nearly as possible 
in the same way, will be alike. Sometimes the 
paste raises so slow that it is not ready when it 
)is wanted for the oven. At another trial the 
j action may be too quick, causing acetic fer- 
mentation to take place, which will render the 
bread sour. A great deal of time is consumed 
and care required in watching the progress of 
the working of the yeast and regulating the 
temperature, which is necessaiy to a complete 



raising. More important than these two, is the 

Ions of ahimt oiie-fovr1i'( nth part of tJie treight of 
the flour, trfiich ix tnintrd in the ju-odiiction of this 
gas. At the ordinaay high price of flour, there 
is a seeming wrong in destroj'ing so large a 
proportion of this most valuable article of food 
in the manufacture of a gas which exists in un- 
limited quantities in articles of little worth. 

Various attempts have been made, both in 
Europe and in this country, to counteract some 
of the difficulties we have spoken of. Thus 
Liebig proposes the use of lime water in mix- 
ing the dough, for the purpose of neutralizing 
any acid tliat might be produced by carrying 
the fermenlatiau to the second stage. Mege 
Mouries advocates fermenting, for a consider- 
able time, tlie middlings which are sifted out 
in the bolting process, and using them for 
raising the loaf. Attempts have also been 
made to render the yeast capable of lieing pre- 
served by compressing it, and placing it in small 
vessels, so as to exclude the air. Another me- 
thod is to whisk brewer's yeast till it forms a. 
uniform liquid mass, which is then spread ujion 
dishes by means of a soft brtish. When one 
coat is tolerably dry, another is laid on, till 
quite a thickness is acquired ; the whole should 
then be covered. The object of both these 
processes is to prepare the yeast, so that it may 
be transported, and be ready for use on ship 
board, or in the countiy. Yeast cakes, which 
are composed of corn meal saturated with yeast, 
and dried at a moderate degree of heat, have 
been used for the same purpose. The difficulty 
attending their use is that they iire unreliable, 
owing to the fact that they absorb water and 
take up air, and by these agencies their active 
principle is destroyed. To remedy this defect 
the author of this article proposed to cover them 
with some substance like stearine, which would 
be impenetrable to air and moisture. 

The other methods of raising bread consist 
in eliminating carbonic acid from some base, 
by the use of some other acid. Carbonic acid 
is a gas at ordinaiy temperatures, and as it is 
the mildest of the acids, it is readily driven off 
if we place some stronger acid where it will 
come in contact with the base to which it is 
united. 

Of these carbonates, salerafii.t. which is a bi- 
carbonate of potassa, was for a long time used, 
on account of its then comparative cheapness. 
In the country it is still used to a considerable 
extent, together with Koiir mil/,; which sup]ilies 
lactic acid. The great difficulties in the use of 
these substances are these : the lactic acid in 
the sour milk is variable in quantity, so that 
experience is no certain guide in determining 
the amount of either substance to be employed. 
If too little milk is used, or that containing too 
little acid, considerable saleratus may not be 
neutralized ; and will accordingly impart a 
brown color to the bread and a nauseous taste 
to the mouth. Simdar results attend the un- 
equal distribution of the alkali throughout the 
food. On these accounts tn'-car/ionate of soda, 
has, since its price has become clieaper, nearly 
displaced the use of saleratus, as the soda is 
much less caustic than the potassa, and there is 
consequently less liability than any unneutral- 
ized portion will discolor the bread or be offen- 
sive to the taste. Soda is also to be preferred 
to potash, inasmucli as the former is found in 
the blood, while the hitter is at best a useless 
substance in the stonnich, and it is probable 
that its presence is highly injurious. 

Tartaric acid and the lii-cn rlionatc of noda_ are 
well known as materials for producing a light 



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20 



and palatable bread ; and if the two substances i When these substances are brought together 
are united in the right proportions, tartrate of -ivith sufficient water, the uncombined acid 
soda will be produced. More frequently, how- unites with the soda, setting free the carbonic 
ever, cream nftartfir is used inst(;ad of tartaric , acid, and forming the phosphate of soda : this 
acid. This substance is to be ])referred to tar- salt, together with the phosphates of lime, al- 
taric acid, as it is slow to dissolve, and accord- ready formed, very nearly supply the amount 
ingly the desired effervescence Is kept up for a j of the phosphate that are removed by the Ixill : 
considerable time. This compound is a bi-tar- : thus we have a white loaf of bread," that is as 
trate of potash, and is what is known to the j healthy and nutritious as the brown loaf made 
chemist as an acid salt— that is, it contains one | from Graham flom-. There is little danger that 
proportion of free acid, and one of combined ' the phosporic :!cid will be ad\dleraled, as is the 
acid. By combining this with the bi-carbonate , case with cream of tai'tar, as it is comparatively 
of soda the portion of free acid unites with the ' ob_cap and the sources of its supply are abun- 
soda, eliminatmg two equivalents of gaseous dant. Its manufactm-e, too, is protected by 
carbonic acid, while two neutral salts, the tar- patent, and is under the immediate supervision 
trate of potasli and tartrate of soda remain in of the inventor, whose reputation is a sufficient 
the bread. The objection to the use of cream guarantee that it will be furnished the market 
of tartar, is that scarcely a specimen of the | pure and unadulterated, 
pure article can be found in the market ; while 
that which is prepared for the countrj- trade is 
frequently adulterated to the extent of three- 
fourths of its weight. In consequence of these 
adulterations, there is no certainty in the 
amount of the substance which jiurports to be 
cream of tartar, that should be used to neutral- 
ize the soda. The only way in which we can 
be certain of correct results, is to procure the 
crystals of the salt, and then pulverize them at 
home. 

Most of the baking powders which are in the 
market, are composed of pulverized argul^ 
(which is entdf cream of tartar), and hi-i-arhon- 
iite of miiiii, in the proportions in v.'hicb luitural 
salts may be produced. In order to keep these 
substances from combining in the can, consi- 
derable A-j^/yw/- or cheap .li^rc/* is used, which 
also serves the purpose of giving the appearance 
that the purchaser is getting a large amount of 
raising material ; considerable alum is also used 
for the purpose of increasing the bulk, for giv- 
ing whiteness to the powder, as well as for 
causing the bread to be of a more desired color, 
and to have a cellular structure, less liable to 
crumble when it is cut. The presence of alum | the poet rises above his office as mere translator. 



We clipped recently from the N. Y. Evening 
Pout, for our paper, a musical translation from 
Heine, written, as we learn from the appended 
initials, by Mr. Wm. P. Palmer, the Poet- 
President of the Manhattan Fire Insurance 
Company, of this city. We have since seen in 
the Pout another translation (if the same lines, 
by whom we know not. We reprint them 
both ; the first for its beauty, and the second 
for contrast. 

The lines by Mr. Palmer are a poet's inter- 
pretation of a poet's conceptions. The others 
are in our estimation prosaic and ungraceful. 
In the last verse, for instance, of the anony- 
mous translation, the idea conveyed is that 
" here or there ■' the heavens are still bending 
over, and the funer.il lamps of the stars hang- 
ing above the grave. While tlie first translator 
emphasizes the thought by the declaration that 
the heavens— ("God's heaven"; — will be as 
bright and the stars as near wherever the body 
may finally repose. In the line — 

Seo-dirged in tJic drifted xnndx.' 



in liaking powder or bread may be detected by 
boiling some of the substance, straining the 
liquor, and adding to it a few drops of aqua 
ammonia or chloride of farium, either of which 
will produce a white precipitate if alum be 
present. 

The greatest improvement ever made in r,us- 
ing bread without the use of yeast, is the pro- 
cess of Prof. Horsford, of Harvard University. 
This method aims at using substances for rais- 
ing bread, that so far from leaving any injuri- 
ous products behind, nbmlutely add to the flour 
Mome of the most desired elements of nutirition. 
It is a well known fact that flour, as it passes 
through the bolt, is deprived of some of its 
most valuable constituents — the salts of phos- 
phoric acid — These phosphates, which are es- 
sential to the development of the bcnies and are 
required for the growth of various tissues of 
the body, are abundant in the kernal of the 
wheat, taken as a whole, but are located almost 
entirely in the inner coating of the bran. At- 
tention was called, many years ago, to the fact 
that the most valuable portion of wheat grown, 
was fed to stock, while a part inferior in the 
elements of true nutrition was used for the 
food of man. But all in vain was the warning 
of the chemists and microscopists ; people, 
with the exception of a few dysijej^tics, pre- 
ferred a white loaf of bread to a healthful one ; 
and so what is known as Graham or unbolted 
flour, never came into general use. The sub- 
stance useds by Prof. Horsford, are a dry acid 



phosphate of lime and bi-earbonate of so(?'f.^ (ate. 



and gives new force and beauty to the original. 

WHERE ? 

Fivm fl/r German of heifte'.s " Jiniiain^." 

BY WM. P. I'ALMER. 

Where shall jiilgrim, worn and hoary. 
On his last dear couch recline ? 

Under palms in soutbern glory? 
Under lindens by the Rhine ? 

Shall my form to earth be hurried 
In the waste, by straugc^r hands ? 

Or on some lone coast lie buried. 
Sea-dirged iu the drifted sands ? 

Matters not ! God's heaven as brightly 
Will surround me th"re as herej^ 

And its stars. like death lamps, nightly 
Hover o'er me, just as near! 

WHERE ? 

Where shall be the resting-place 
Of (his we;iry frame of mine ? 

Under palm-trees iu the South ? 
Under lindens by tiie Rhine? 

Shall I in some desert, lie. 

Covered by a stranger's hand ? 

Or upou the barren beach 
Of an ocean, in the sand ? 

All is one, for here or there 

Heaven shall bend around my bed ; 

And at night the stars snail hang — 
Funeral lamps above the dead . 

A New Bi:eed. — Our little girl informed us 
the other day that her uncle K. had a beautiful 
Con-foundland dog. After seeing the pup we 
decided that the name was perfectly appropri- 



Pepsine. 

Pepsine is the solvent or digestive principle 

1 of the gastric juice. 

Medicinal Pepsin e is used for aiding digestion 

J in the human stomach, and is (U'epared as fol- 

[ lows : the mucous membrane hning the interior 
of the stomach of calves, sheep or pigs, is 
dried, pulverized and generally mixed with 
powdered starch, and administered in sheiTy 
wine. A new method of preparation is de- 
scribed by Dr. Edward Long, of Dubliu. in the 
Pharmacist, of Chicago, which consists in di- 
gesting the fresh and thoroughly cleansed 
stomach of the ])ig iu gh/ceriiir for one week. 
The resulting fluid is strained and filtered, and 

I one drachm of it mixed with 1,5 drops of muri- 
atic acid and 100 ounces of water, " readily 
dissolved 700 grains of moist fibrine, properly 
prepared, wliile the sohitions in general use dis- 
solved but 75 grains. ' 

The medicinal use of " pepsine," so called, 
has been attended with much uncertainty, and 
physicians differ greatly upon its merits. But 
leaving out of question the various degrees of 
strength and modes of preparation, it .should 
be remembered that the gastric juice of animals 
differs with the food tliey eat, and that while 
the animals from which we obtain the ''pep- 
sine " subsist chiefly upon vegetable food, man 
requires and consumes a large quantity of ani- 
mal food. It has long been known that the 
gastric juice of flesh-eating animals has but 
little solvent effect upon vegetables, and tice 
cersa, while the gastric juice of the human 
stomach dissolves readily either kind of food. 
As " medicinal pepsine " is but a preparation 
of the gastric juice of animals, it can not be 
reasonably expected that it should acquire new 
powers wheu introduced into the human 
stomach. If the chemical principle, p:psine, 
can be separated from the gastric juice, and 
administered by itself, more satisfactoiy re- 
sidts may be attained. 

Phospho-Glyceric Acid for Pre- 
serving Meat. 

It is gratifj'ing to sec how the use of phos- 
phoric acid preparations for the various pur- 
poses of the household is constantly gaining 
ground. Scarcely have the Acid Phosphate 
and Phosphatic Baking Powders been intro- 
duced by us, when a chemist in Washington, 
Dr. T. E. DoTcn, has applied a mixture of 
phospho-glyceric acid with other substances 
for keeping meat fres'n. The process, which 
is herewith brought for the first time before 
the public, is as follows : 

The doctor introduces in the liquid or gas- 
eons state, mixtures of aldehyde in glycerine 
or phospho-glyceric acid, in the body of the 
kdled animal, or parts thereof, or introduces 
aldehyde vapors iu the lungs of the IFving ani- 
mal until death occurs. Aldehyde is a kind of 
ether, a very light volatile liquid of decided 
odor. By the absorption of oxygen it is trans- 
formed in the meat into acetic acid, which is 
itself an antiseptic, and the perhaps objection- 
able odor of the ald'-hyde will thus entirely 
disappear. 

Dr. Doteh has found that none of the nutri- 
tive elements of the meat are lost ; as is for in- 
stance the case in salting. It is said also that 
the meat will retain the appearance of, and will 
taste like fresh meat even after months. The 
oleo-phosphoric acid is in itself a light nutri- 
tive element, being a secondary jjroduct of de- 
composition of the oleo-phosphoric acid, which 



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is the chief ingredient of the fatty matter of 
the liver, the brain and the nerves, and proba- 
bly also of tha blood. Oleo-phosphoric acid 
has also been met with in the yolk of the egg. 
Some of our best clicmists, as for instance 
Mr. Adolph Oit, speaks in verj^ favorable terms 
of this process, and we sincerely hope that the 
inventor will reap the full benefit due to him 
for the labor bestowed upon a subject so im- 
portant in its connection with the preservation 
and cheapening of food. 



Lead-Encased Block-Tin Pipe. 

This kind of pipe for conducting drinking 
water has been ui high favor, especially among 
the more intelligent classes, for some years 
past. It has been shown most conclusively 
by men of high scientific ability, tliat water, 
after being in contact with lead for any length 
of time, becomes poisonous. The records of 
the New York Hospital and other institutions 
will show liow niiuiv i)ainful and even fatal 
disorders have been caused by lead poison. In 
view of these considerations we were at first 
much surprised, when we noticed tlie stand 
taken by the eminent and scientific Prof. John- 
son, of Yale College, as quoted in the January 
number of Table Talk. He does not exactly 
favor the use of lead pipe, but rather throws 
discredit upon tin lined pipe. Upon second 
tliought, however, we think the Professor 
should receive the thanks of all who use tiu-hned 
pipe, for guarding them against the use of pipe 
hiiprupcrhi joined. The Professor calls for a 
better mode of joining these pipes, so as to pre- 
vent i/altianic action. When this action takes 
place decomposition of the interior lining, and 
finally an impereeptil)le but poisonous action of 
tlic water upon the adjacent lead surely follows. 

This requirement of the Professor has been 
met by the manufacturers. The Colwclls, Shaw 
& Willard Minufacturing C(unpany, and the 
only objection against tin-li]iediiipe has been re- 
moved, by the invention which we take pleasure 
in bringing to public notice by the following 
diagram and description. 



Fig. 5 



DESCRIPTION OF NEW .TOINT. 

Fig. 1 is a T joint with the 
ends of the pipe attached. 

Fig. 2 is a sectional view 
of same, showing the perfect, 
iiuiun this method secures. 

Fig. 3 is a single joint with 
) i|ie attached. 

I'^ig. 4, a sectional view of 
same. 

Fig. 5, a single joint ready 
fur use ; it is made of brass 
and heavily tinned, both in- 
side and out ; a, a, are the 
conical ends to which the pipe is fitted. A, the 
outer flange to whicli the heat is applied, which 
momentarily melts the tin and forms a perfectly 
secure joint. 




K^ Send for Catalogue. .^ 



Mathematical Demonstration. 

■•Pretty time to l)e coming home to your 
family, Mr. Smith ; here it is three o'clock in 
the morning ! " " Three o'clock, my dear ! why 
it's only one o'clock ; you've been dreaming. " 
" Smith— you're drunk ! I tell you it is three 
o'clock : look for yourself.'' " And I tell you, 
madam, I'm not drunk : it's one o'clock, for I 
heard it strike one as I came 'round the corner, 
t/iree tiiiien .' " 



Impudence. 

A newspapi-r published in the sju-ighdy and 
growing village of Chicago (situated in the 
State of Illinois,) with patronizing assurance, 
speaks of New York as "?/«' Chii-ngi) of the 
Eaut!" This is almost equal to the effrontery 
of the Chicago Daily Times in styling itself 
" the Table Talk of the West !" 




— Popular ideas of the seat of the moral 
qualities in man are not much more correct ' 
than those of a little girl whom we once saw 
helped at table to the heart of a roast chicken. 
She raised it on her fork and contemplated it | 
with great interest and gravity. " Papa," said I 
she, "IS this the place where the chicken had i 



I I ji all his love for his friends : 



— •• I should like to know why you have sued • 
me ?" demanded an indignant borrower of his j 
creditor who had just commenced an action 
against hmi for debt. '• Why, my dear fellow, 
I did it to oblige you.' "To oblige me?" j 
'• Certainly, to oblige you to pay the debt." \ 



— An Irishman, leaning against a lamp-post 
as a funeral procession was passing by, was 
asked who was dead. " I can't exactly say, 
sur," said he, "but I presume it is the jintle- 
man in the coffin." 



Fi(/ 2 



— A cynical friend commenting the other 
day upon the fi-equency of weddings, likened 
the young people to pigs. Said lie. "it's the 
old story constantly repeated, (^ue pig dijis 
his nose into a trough of hot swill, and burn- 
ing that sensitive organ, sets up a loud sipieal. 
Immediately all the other pigs run and thrust 
their noses into the hot mess, just to see what 
that pig was squealing about. ' 
•<^« 

— Mr. Seward is sr.id to have stopped at only 
four public houses during his entire trip to 
Mexico and back. How awfully thirsty be 
must have been wbQ ' he returned.-^ World. 





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18 70. 
Horsford's Bread Preparation. 

Whiit in it for? 

It is for " Jimiiiy" Bread, Ralln, Bixeiiit, 
Waffie)), Cii.kes, Di(mplin.ijs, etc., etc., and takes 
the place of Yeast, Soda or Sala?ratus, Cream 
of Tartar, sour Milk or any otlier form of 
leaven. 

How does it difer from other forms of 
leaven or other " Baking Powders?" 

Essentially in this: that all other "raising" 
or leavening agents supply in themselves 
nothing which is nutritious or required by the 
human system ; HorsJ\>rd' ."< Brcitd Prepanition 
does contain the elements of nutrition in such 
proportions and form as renders them immedi- 
ately assimilable. 

Why nhnild ire tise it? 

Recdiise it is manufai'tured only by the 
well-known Rumford Chemical Works of 
Providence, R. I., under the personal super- 
vision of Professor E. N. Horsford, of Har- 
vard University, and the purity of the in- 
gredients can therefore be relied upon. 

Jiec't use the directions for its use are simple 
and easily understood. The proportions of 
Acid and Soda are not left to careless or igno- 
rant cooks. 

Becaitse Bread, Biscuit — any form of far- 
inaceous food — made with this Preparation, 
may be eaten Hot as well as cold by Invalids 
and Dj/spepties. 

Because the nutritive value of flour is in- 
creased by the use of Prof. Horsford's inven- 
tion ten per cent. (See letter from Baron 
Liebig to Prof. Horsford.) 

Secaiise but a few moments time are re- 
quired to prepare any form of Bread for baking. 
The result is certain, and the bread always 
good. Climate, weather, temperature do not 
affect the result. 

Because sweet and delicious Hot Biscuit, 
Rolls, &c., are made by the use of Hor.iford's 
Preparation, \\\\\\ flour, irater, and mdt only, — 
neither milk, butter, nor other shortening 
being necessary. 

Because it supplies to the human system 
the Phoxphates which exist in the whole grain, 
but which are removed with the bran in the 
manufacture of fine flour. 

Because Horsford's. Bread Preparation is 
the onli/ "Baking Powdef" which is vsed, ap- 
proved, and publicly recommended by scientific 
men. Its use is almost universal among phy- 
sicians. 

Among those who use and have given Hors- 
ford's Bread Preparauon their unqualified ap- 
proval, we are at liberty to mention : 

The Late Dr. V.\LEXTINE MOTT, New York. 
Dk. WILLARD P.ARKER 

TheLateDj. horaie c;reen.... 

Dr. WM. H. DVVINELLE 

Dr. FORDYCE HARKER 

Dr. JOHN H. GRISrOM 

Dr. august JACOKI 

Prof. CHAS. A. JOY, Columbia Col... 

Prof. O.K. CHANDLER, Columbia Col. 

Dr. JOHN TORREY, Columbia Col. » 

Pr<if. R. OGDEN DOREMUS 

Dr. WM. A. HAMMOND, Prof, of 
Diseases of the Mind and Nervous 
System, and of Clinical Medicine in 
Bellcvue Hospital Medical College, 
and late Surgeon General, U.S. Army " 

MASON C. WELD, tChemist), Asso- 
ciate Editor American Agriculturist,.. " 

S. H. WALES, Editor Scientific Ameri- 
can, " 

J. B.LYMAN. Agricultural Edi-irN.Y. 
Tribune, and Associate Editor '"Hearth 
and Home," •< 

ORANGE JUDO, Proprietor and Edi- 
tor American .Agriculturist, '■ 

D. D. T. MOORK, Proprietor and Edi- 
tor .Moore's Rural New Yorker » 

Rev. CR.\-MMOND KENNEDY, Asso- 
ciate Editor " Christian Union," jt 

Dr. J. R. NICHOLS Bost., Mass. 

Dr.C.T. J,\CI<S0N, Mass. State Chem. >i 

Prof. J. C. BOOTH, of U. S. Mint Phila., Penn. 

Prof. SAMUEL H. DICKSON, Jeffer- 
son Medical College " 

Prof. C. S. GAUNT, M.D., .. 

Prof. SAMUEL JACKSON, M.D., Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania " 

Dr. A. P. WYLIE Chester, S. C. 

Dr. THOMAS S. JONES Jacl<son, La. 

Dr. A. J. COMFORT ".Ft. Ripley, Minn. 

Horsford's Bread Preparation is put up in 
packages sufficient for 2.5 pounds of flour. 

RETAIL PRICE (with Tin Measure) 30cts. 

WILSON, LOOKWOOD, EVERETT & CO., 

Oeneral Ayents, 

201 Fulton St., N. Y. City. 



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— An Eastern youth traveling in the uncivil- 
ized regions between here and California, pro- 
vided himself with a small pistol, so as not to 
be out of fashion. While he was apparently 
examining it, but really " showing off," a 
lirawny miner, whose belt was weighted with 
two heavj' six-shooters, asked him whtit he had 
there. " Why," replied the young man from 
the East, "that is a pistol." " That a pistol!" 
said the rough, "Wall, if you should shoot me 
with it, and I should erer find it out—VA lick 
voti like fun." 



— Dr. Banks says that sair-dustpiUivio\\\(\ 
effectually cure most of the disea.ses which 
now afflict mankind, — if every individual would 
make his own saw dust. 

— •^^ 

— Some persons — (we don't mean yav, 
reader,)— are like the French nation, of whom 
it was wittily said in '48, that they did not 
know what they wanted, and would never rest 
till they had got it ! 

— A hog may not be m thorough mathemati- 
cian, but he is very fond of a good square root. 



Motto fou the " Fat Men's Association." — 

"We are such stuff as dreams are made of." — 

Tempest, Act IV, Scene I. 



— One venerable darkey down South is " a- 
gwine to vote for dat Fifteenth CVimmand- 
ment ' the first time he has a chance. 



— Gardeners mind their peas, actors mind 
their cues, but church-wardens, instead of 
minding their p's and qs, verj' often give all 
their attention to their pews and keys. 



— Here is a little girl who will take all the 
prizes in some up-town school, l:iy-and-by : 
"Did I not tell you." said her father, " not to 
pick flowers in the conservatory without 
leave ?" "Yes, papa ; but all these had leaves." 
— Eveniiig Post. 



— A negro parson in the West, preaching 
against the love of money, concluded his ser- 
mon by saying: "And finally, brethren, you 
can judge what God thinks of money by the 
class of people be gives it to." 

We find the following verses in the Christian 
Union. It is prudent to state that the views 
therein expressed tire not those of Mr. Beecher, 
but of modern materialistic jihilosopher.s. 
They are nearly as intelligible as Prof. Hux- 
lej's recent lectures, and are more amusing. 

The Cosmic Egg. 

Upon the Rock yet uncreate, 
Amid a Chaos inchoate. 
An uncreated Being sate — 
Beneath Him Hock, 
Above Him Cloud, 
And the Cloud was Rock, 
And the Rock was Cloud. 

The rock was growing moist and warm. 

The cloud began to take the Form. 

As though a something would be Born — 

A form chaotic, vast and vague. 

Which issued in The Cosmic Eijg. 

Then the Being uncreate 
Upon The Egg did Incubate, 

And thus became the Incubator : 
And of The Egg did Allegate, 

And thus became the Alligator; 
And the Incubator was Potentate, 
But the Alligator was Potentator. , 



The following letter has been handed 
to us l)y Mr. George F. Wilson, the 
Treasurer of the Rumford Chemical 
Works, of Providence, R. I. It is from 
' Peter Henderson, Esq., tlie Seedsman, 
Florist, and Agricultural Writer; he 
needs no introduction from us where 
ever an agricultural newspaper is taken, 
or agricultural books circulate. 

New Yokk, October 20, 1 sns. 
To Mr. Geo. F. Wilson. 

Dear Sir, — Last spring I purchased from 
your oftice in New York one ton of your 
"Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
Lime," costing fliO, and at the same time I 
bought a ton of No. 1 Peruvian Guano, 
costing $85, with a view to test the Superphos- 
phate against the Guano, by careful experi- 
ment. Accordingly, two acres of our richest 
maiket garden ground was measured off, and 
carefully ploughed. One acre was sown with 
i the Guano, and the other with your Super- 
I phosphate, on the ploughed surface, then 
thoroughly harrowed in and sown with beets 
and onions, equal quantities on each acre. 
The crops on both acres were unusually early 
and large, netting a clear profit of $5(10 per 
acre, (even at the low rates at which all early 
vegetables sold last summer in New York). 
There was no perceptible difference in the 
effects produced by the Guano and Superphos- 
phate on the crops of onions and beets ; both 
icere extra fine. But (he second crop (celery) 
now shotes the finest on the acre fertilised with 
your Superphti.Hphate. 

Verv respectfully yours. 

PETER HENDERSON. 

The next letter on tlie same subject, 
was written to Jnhn Knnx; Esq., the 
" Small Fruit" Grower, by Col. iMa.mi C. 
Weld, of New York, well known as an 
Agricultural Chemist, and Associate 
Editor of the "American Agriculturist." 

New York, June 7th, 1869. 
To .Jons Knox, Esq., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Dear Sir,— My friend Mr. Potter, of Wil- 
son, Lockwood, Everett & Co. , of New York, 
tells me you have made inciuiry concerning 
."Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
! Lime, " and asks if I will give you my opinion 
of it. / buy a for my aim vse, knowing the 
article and having made comparative tests with 
it last year, in which it stood better than any 
other Superphosphate that I tried, save one. 
and fully equal, if not better than that one on 
certain crops. I am personally acquainted 
with the members of the firm of Wilson, Lock- 
wood, Everett & Co., and know that their re- 
presentations can be strictly relied upon. 

Yours truly, MASON C. WELD. 



Wil.son's Ammoniated Superphos- 
phate of Lime, above referred to, can be 
had of us direct, or through any of the 
agricultural seed stores, in any quantity, 
from 100 lbs. to 1.000 ton.s. 

Price, $00 per Ton'. 

A jiamphlet, descriptive of the above 
fertilizer, sent free upon application. 
Every ton warranted equal to standard. 

Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co., 

GENERAL AGENTS, 

201 Fulton St., N.Y. 



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FMarch. 



IVEW DEPOTS. 



In addition to our Agencies in the principal 
cities and towns of the WEST, for the greater ; discussion 
convenience of the trade, we liave established 
Depots for all our goods in Chicago. Cincinnati 
and St. Louis, as follows : 

CHICAGO, 

Messrs. KING !i OWEN, 250 & 252 South Water St, 



CINCINNATI, 

Messrs. L M. BISHOP & CO., S5 and 87 Race 



ST, LOUIS. 

Messrs. FEED. P, ROZIER & CO., 521 North 2d St, 
Orders for Horsford's Bkead Preparation, 
Rumfurd Teii«t PnirdcrK, II<irnJ't/rd's Cream of \ 
Tnrhir Siibstiiut'\ &c., &c., will be received | 
and filled at the above Depots, as well as by j 
many other Agents, whose names are given 
elsewhere, without the delny of shipment from , 
New York. Buyers of our goods in small I 
quantities will always mre money, as well as 
time, by ordering of (jur nearest Agent. 

Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co, 

201 Fulton St., N.Y. 



First, Second, or Third Person ? 

A few years ago, in the Austniliau House of 
Assembly, the subject of education was under 
A member was speaking in favor 
] \ of the necessity and extension of educational 
privileges, and with enthusiastic warmth, ex- 
claimed, " Sir, we must educate our children." 
But instantly it flashed upon his mind that he 
was unblest with babies, and he corrected him- 
self with — " Sir. you nuist educate your chil- 
dren." But at this juoposition, the chairman, 
who was addressed, began to ^hake his head 
and grin. " Sir," continued the perple.xed 
orator, amidst the roiir of the house, "sir, you 
— they — we — must educate their children ! ' 



LIEBIG'S 

Extract of Meat, 



OF LA PLATA, 




HORSFORD'S 

Acid Phosphate, 

(MEDICINAL,; 

Frepared by the 

RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS, 



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PROVIDENCE, 

t'NUlK THE DIPfc-TION :";r 

Professor E. K Horsford, 

Late Rvmfoi'd Professor at Harvard IJniven 
Camhrid'^e, Mass. 



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The value of preparations of acid phosphates 
as therapeutic agents is in keeping with well- 
known chemical principles. 

So far as experience goes, Horsford's Acid 
Phosphate seems to act as if it were nutriment 
to the cerebral and nervous systems, restoring 
to their normal action secret<n'y ovgans that 
have been deranged, giving vigor where tliere 
has been debility, and renewed strength where 
there has been exhaustion. 

It has been found espeeudii) serciecaUe in dys- 
pepula and disorders ineident thereto : in uri- 
nary difficulties, proceeding from, paralysis of the 
bladder or s'phine.ter, and is known to be useful 
■in tendencies to r/ratel and spermatorrho', in 
cei'ebrul and spinal paralysis, mental exhaustimi, 
wakefulness, hysteria, and other nerroiis affec- 
tions. 

Each fluid drachm contains : 

.U32 of a grain of metallic iron, in the form 
of oxide combined as an acid phosphate. 

I.UIO of micombined, potential tribasic phos- 
phoric acid, mixed with tribasic phos- 
phoric acid combined as monobasic phos- 
phate of lime, potassa, magnesia and 
ammcmia. 

It contains no pyro-phosphate, or meta phos- 
phate of any base whatever. 

Most excellent results have attended its ad 



— The state of society in Arkansas was ex- 1 
ceedingly " rough" a few years ago. The t 
most frightful tragedies were frequently en- 
acted, and the inhabitants seemed to think 
■ nothing of them. The following anecdote is j 
] substantially true : Two desperadoes met at a 
tavern, in Helena, one evening. They were 
named respectively Tom Scroggs and Bdl 
' Pike. Says Scroggs — I 

"How's things?" I 

" Peart," says Pike. ! 

" Heard you said you'd bleed me uext time 
we met," says Scroggs. i 

"That's me," says Pike, and tv.-o bowie- 
knives flashed fiercely together. The fellows 
hacked and carved each other pretty briskly 
for ten or twelve minutes, when Pike, having 
lost an ear and having received two or three 
pretty bad punctures in his abdomen, struck 
his colors, and declared that he was satisfied. 

" What s all this?' tremblingly inquired a 
stranger, who entered just as the fight ended. 

"Oh, its of no 'count," says the landlord, 
an ethereal Ci-eature of fOme two hundred iiud 
fifty pounds weight, and with a face like the 
broad side of abarn,—" 'taint nothin ; some of 
the boys been enjoyin' theirselees a little ■' that's 
all! Won t you hist in a little pizen, stranger!'' 
and the genial l-andlord set out a black bottle 
and a yellow bowl of brown sugar. 

The Original and only Genuine 

LIEBIG-'S 

Extract of Meat, 

K MADE BY THE 

LIEBIG'S EXTRACT OF MEAT CO., 

And has the Sifpuil arcn of Baron Lie- 

Mg, the inventor, and of Dr. Ma.r V. Pet- 

tenkofer, delegate, on every Jar, wifh- 

oiit which none can be genvine. 
It is the only ai-ticle that received GOLD 
MEDALS AT PARIS Isc", HAVRE 18««, and 
THE GRAND DIPLOMA (superior to the 
Gold Medal), at AMSTERDAM 1869. 

It is invaluable as Pood, especially for those 
who need strengthening nourishment. It se- 
cures economy in housekeeepiug, and excel- 
lence in cookery, while saving time, trouble, 
fuel aud heidMi. It is admirably adapted to 
the use of Travelers' and Hunters', and on 
ship board and on farms and plantations where 
fresh meat cannot be had for daily use. It 
keeps for years in any climate. This is the 
only sort used by the governments of England, 



MANUFAOTDKEU BY 

A. BENITES & CO., Buenos Aykf.s. 

This is a pure extract of beef, prepared ac- 
cording to the improved process of Baron von 
Liehiy. While it is invaluable in the sick-room 
in the preparation of beef tea, a more extended 
use for it will be found in every household, as 
an economical and perfect substitute for fresh 
beef in the preparation of all kinds of soups, 
sauces, etc. Persons traveling on land or sea 
will find it indispensable. It is put up in 1 lb., 
ilb., ^Ib. and i lb. pots. 

Persons wishing ttie best article in the market 
as well as the elieapest, will ask for the Liebig't 
E.vtract of Meat, of La Plata. 

E. FOUGERA, 

Agent for United States, 
30 North William S t.. New York. 

FO UGER A'S 

Compound lodinised 

COD LIVER OIL. 




Far superior to all others, being five times as 
strong and as efiicacious as pure Cod Liver Oil. 
It is recommended in Consumption, Scrofula, 
Rickets, Rheumatism, etc. 

FOUGERA'S 

READY MADE 

MUSTARD PLASTERS, 

Always ready for use, clean and reliable, should 
be in ever\' familv. 



FOUGERA'S 

VERMIFUGE, 

An agreeable and certain remedy for children 
and adults. 

FOUGERA'S 

PECTORAL PASTE. 

A pleasant remedy for Coughs, Bronchitis, 
Irritation of the Throat, etc. 



ministration for the prostration and nervmis ' France, Russia, Prussia, Italy, Holland and 
' others. 

Be particular to ask for LIEBIG'S COM- 
PANY'S extract, and 

BEWARE OP IMITATIONS. 
J. 3IILHA U'S SONS, 
183 Broadway, N. Y.. 

SOLE AGENTS. 



symptoms following Sunstroke. 

Physicians desiring to examine and test this 
remedy, are requested to apply by letter, or 
otherwise, to the undersigned. 

Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co., 

GBN3RAL AOENTS. 

201 Fulton St., N. Y. 



LANCELOT'S CIGARETTES, 

FOR ASTHMA, 

'WILL. CAUSE IMMEDIATE RELIEF. 

All the above for sale by Druggists generally, 
aiftl by 

E. FOUGERA, 

Importing and Manufacturing Pharmacist, 
30 North William St., Neiv York. 



J. W. Prati, Printer, 76 Fulton Street N. Y. 



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